Hi,
I'm currently in the planning stages for a reasonably large commercial
site using framework 3.5. One of the requirements is that the
application be rebadged under multiple company names with different
designs/graphics, URLs, 'altered funtionality' etc.
After a bit of thinking, I've come up with an idea but I'd like to get
opinions on it before proceeding. This project is very much commercial
grade and needs to be highly scalable - so, if something I'm thinking
of doing is not best-practice please let me know!
1/ Use pure CSS as opposed to themes/skins. When I look at
http://www.csszengarden.com, I can see that there's enough power in
CSS to achieve the look and feel differences. I've read a few threads
on CSS v Themes and see that it's a bit of a contentious issue,
however think that CSS should be able to do the job with the least
effort.
2/ Have a different CSS file for each company/URL then use HTTP
handlers to intercept calls for *.css and programatically return the
desired sheet. One (newbie!) question that I have here - Is it an
easy matter to set up IIS / Server 2008 to serve the same web
application simultaneously to multiple (potentially many) URLs and
identify the active address in a HTTP handler?
Also - if there's any books/articles on this topic that people can
recommend, I'm all ears.
Thanks very much in advance,
Damien
I'm currently in the planning stages for a reasonably large commercial
site using framework 3.5. One of the requirements is that the
application be rebadged under multiple company names with different
designs/graphics, URLs, 'altered funtionality' etc.
After a bit of thinking, I've come up with an idea but I'd like to get
opinions on it before proceeding. This project is very much commercial
grade and needs to be highly scalable - so, if something I'm thinking
of doing is not best-practice please let me know!
1/ Use pure CSS as opposed to themes/skins. When I look at
http://www.csszengarden.com, I can see that there's enough power in
CSS to achieve the look and feel differences. I've read a few threads
on CSS v Themes and see that it's a bit of a contentious issue,
however think that CSS should be able to do the job with the least
effort.
2/ Have a different CSS file for each company/URL then use HTTP
handlers to intercept calls for *.css and programatically return the
desired sheet. One (newbie!) question that I have here - Is it an
easy matter to set up IIS / Server 2008 to serve the same web
application simultaneously to multiple (potentially many) URLs and
identify the active address in a HTTP handler?
Also - if there's any books/articles on this topic that people can
recommend, I'm all ears.
Thanks very much in advance,
Damien
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