I have been doing web development since the days of Mosaic. Stuck in my ways I always used table tags to create my page layout and design. I knew CSS was better for doing layout design and my website needed a face lift. I picked up a great book on CSS, Styin' with CSS. I'm not a designer at all but this book made it very simple to learn and use. His used Dreamweaver for his examples. I wanted to use them in in Visual Studio with ASP.NET so I created some basic project templates for Visual Studio .NET. These are basic templates with the bare mininum so there isn't anything to delete to use. They use some ASP.NET best practices like Master Pages, Themes, asp.net menu, and site map. To use download the VSI files and install to Visual Studio. Choose File -> New -> Web Site -> My Templates. Three Column - Rounded Corners with Left Navigation, main center content, and a right promo area. Two Column - Rounded corners with left navigation and main content. Two column with Top Navigation - Rounded corners with top navigation, left side links and main content. If you have other asp.net css templates, contact me to join the project and we can add more. Mike Douglas' blog http://www.codesmartnothard.com
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