Contents tagged with CSS
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CSS Computed Styles
I have not been blogging here because I've been doing a lot of web design research lately which does not involve ASP.NET. I'm really slacking off on improving my programming skills. I went on a fabulous vacation and never came back mentally. However I'm still making the effort to master web design so I will share some of my recent discoveries.
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Custom Web Service Test Page Design
You can customize the design of a web service's test page with a single line of code in the web.config file. But like most things in ASP.NET it is not that easy if you actually try it!
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ASP.NET Web Design - Beyond CSS
I haven't really searched for ASP.NET web design ideas and styles but I certainly have not come across anything through my casual reading of online articles. You can find plenty of material on the technical aspects of themes, ASP.NET 2.0 CSS Friendly Control Adapters, master pages, and skins but nobody applies any actual design to their examples. I've been researching many web design sites but their focus is entirely on CSS. Web designers don't seem to concern themselves with anything except the CSS while developers totally avoid applying the eye candy. This leaves being visually creative with ASP.NET an uncharted territory.
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Document Your CSS As A Poster
I've been using StumbleUpon to find interesting web sites about web development and yesterday I found a site that will generate a poster of your CSS. It creates an image that resembles a class diagram. I think it is a great way to document your style sheets. One of my style sheets produced such a massive and confusing diagram that I think I'll show it to my client so I'll look like a genius.
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Book Review: Professional ASP.NET 2.0 Design
I have finally finished reading Jacob J. Sanford's book Professional ASP.NET 2.0 Design: CSS, Themes, and Master Pages. This is one of several books I've bought on ASP.NET 2.0 to deepen my expertise. Now we've moved on to ASP.NET 3.5 before I've mastered ASP.NET 2.0. I expected this book to be full of design ideas for web controls, themes, and skins but instead it leaves much of the creativity up to you and only covers the aspects of ASP.NET 2.0 that apply to design. However I did learn a lot by reading this book.