Hey Pat,

Sorry if it sounded like any chastisement. I originally thought all your buttons were like your weboperahouse login button (i.e. the button text is embedded in the image, so the button image cannot be reused). Doing this does increase difficulty--and this "burden" is always there no matter what someone's server tech is, since you'd have to Photoshop every single button you need. This burden lies outside of any programming development, whether LAMP or MS. (But it does seem like a lot of asp.net sites are more business oriented and formal/boring).

But like I said, I'm guilty of welcoming "burdens" like those. I enjoy working with Flash and Photoshop etc, so it's ok with me.

Thank you so much for the compliments. And I agree, there is definitely a fine line between "cool looking" flash and "annoying" flash. This concept was present way back when animated gifs were prolific and had the same issue. I've found that the key is to use Flash sparingly, and keep any long animations slow moving.

The menu script is done by this amazing javascript genius:
http://webapp.youngpup.net/
I did a couple of minor mods, like the translucency. It's amazing what someone can do with just Javascript.

Yes, I'm part of the dev team.

following on from the earlier discussion on cheap fully featured hosting for asp.net 2.0, i've found another one which looks pretty good on paper (i'm still , mainly with Webhost4life):

http://www.re-invent.com/webhosting.aspx

they also offer SQL server 2005 for FREE!! - i might just have to have a look there sooner, rather than later

jimi

http://www.jamestollan.com

that´s pretty cheap. I paid 110 dolars in www.liquidsix.com
I´ve no complains, but the price is double.

Do you know how much space for the sql db they give you or if it is included in the disk space.

Hosting should be sticky to.

Do they offer the source code?I want to study it....

Love life, Love ASP.net

Source code of what?

For the owner of http://www.ecoelectricals.co.uk/
Can you tell me how you did the products catelog and still kept the sitemap structure. ???

It would be nice if you could send me your catelog files :-)

or if you can tell me how you did ??

Because I am having a rought time making a menu for all the products.
Help please.
If you like I can show you how to create thumbnails on the fly for the products in asp.net 2,0

I'm back!

I have made a new site based on the Beer House starter kit. Please see:

http://www.boyleed.com

You might be interested in the help system for registration. It uses video.

The main features of this site are the demo Access 2003 course and the Quiz Maker tools. Alas I haven't completed the printout tool yet. You can however make and store a multiple choice quiz. I think you will be interest with the multi level grid. There is also a video help section on how this grid works.

There are still some bugs and some rough spots.

Pat


http://weboperahouse.com

we should be exchanging the codes.

Hello all,
here it is www.cspringsboard.com
I am having some problems with the layout on pre IE7 browsers. Please let me know if the header image is repeated. OOOSHOLA please add my link to the list.


Thanks

The header image isn't repeated in Firefox nor IE (You'll have to do this yourself, since Marco's sample code doesn't have it repeat). Make sure you test your whole site in Firefox and IE, as Firefox is a close second in the browser competition. Also, I can't click on the theme drop-down in Firefox (you should probably make its css z-index much higher). Also, in IE6, the header pushes everything down past your breadcrumbs strip.

My advice is to go back and emulate the layout Marco provided, make sure it looks right in both browsers, then gradually work/test backwards to make it your desired 2 column layout. You'll see anything odd stand out better this way.

Looks good though, and I love the clever name!