Ch 6

papadan · March 29th, 2017, 09:54 PM

I want to design my website with a consistent look, including images in the header. Is a theme (assuming no overriding desired) the best idea, or are there other ways to simply customize my master page for a consistent look throughout that includes images?

In other words, could I just add an image to the <header> tag in the master page. Or have the entire header contain a background image.

Just curious - would a theme be the better way to go, or is it an "either-way" decision?

Also, at Chapter 6, page 220, bullet point 7 - I added the code to my config file:

Code:

 <pages theme="MainTheme" styleSheetTheme="MainTheme" />

but my master page still doesn't show the style(s) in Design View. Although it works in the browser.

Imar · April 2nd, 2017, 03:25 PM

Instead of a theme, you can also just use standard CSS files linked to from within your master page. With a theme it's easy to switch between two completely different layouts. if you don't need that, you can just use standard CSS, images and so on.

Cheers,

Imar

papadan · April 2nd, 2017, 06:00 PM

Thanks! Did you have any feedback regarding the last part of my question? Using styleSheetTheme in the config file to show the styles in design view?

Imar · April 3rd, 2017, 04:38 AM

Nope, not sure why it wouldn't work. Are you sure you made the change to the web.config in the root of the Solution Explorer in Visual Studio? Which folder are you opening as the web site in VS?

Imar

papadan · April 3rd, 2017, 09:31 AM

Thanks! It's working now. I am not sure what correction I made, but one thing that I recently did was to remove a root folder, "Site", in my website directory. I know I could have kept this folder, but I would have needed to make changes throughout (as I copied and pasted over various files from the wrox downloads and there was no "Site" folder in these).

So maybe after doing this - I fixed the issue. Needless to say, it is now working!

PS: And after all that, I'm probably going to scrap the whole "Theme" concept anyway. I don't want to allow any dynamic switching of themes in any current websites I may be working with. But...it's nice to know that I "can" if needed!