Any master page issues?

[Mark B]

I have done about 30 pages of a new site. I just experimented with applying
a global theme that I downloaded from the net. It seemed to work as
described, applying colors, fonts etc to all pages.

Now I am thinking to create a Master Page so that I can have:

- A company logo (top-left)
- A horizontal navigation bar (top)
- A standard copyright footer (bottom)

I have just read through the help file on Master Pages.

Before I go and:

- Create a new master page with three 3 sections above
- Modify the page directive to include: MasterPageFile= "~/Master.master"

Is there anything I may need to be aware of?

[Mark Rae [MVP]]

Re: Any master page issues?

"Mark B" <none123@none.c omwrote in message
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I have just read through the help file on Master Pages.
Is there anything I may need to be aware of?

I can't think of anything, especially since you've read through the help
file.

There are two key things to remember about MasterPages:

1) they are UserControls - this means that e.g. the MasterPage's Page_Load
event fires *after* the content page's Page_Load event etc...

2) they are not somehow the ASP.NET equivalent of framesets - the entire
page is created every time in a MasterPage / content page scenario...


--
Mark Rae
ASP.NET MVP

http://www.markrae.net

[Eliyahu Goldin]

Re: Any master page issues?

Not that it should stop you from using master pages, you just need to
realize that the whole master page will land into the content page. So if
you have relative url references in the master page, the starting point for
them will be the directory with the content page, not with the master page.

--
Eliyahu Goldin,
Software Developer
Microsoft MVP [ASP.NET]

http://msmvps.com/blogs/egoldin

http://usableasp.net

"Mark B" <none123@none.c omwrote in message
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>I have done about 30 pages of a new site. I just experimented with applying
>a global theme that I downloaded from the net. It seemed to work as
>described, applying colors, fonts etc to all pages.
>
Now I am thinking to create a Master Page so that I can have:
>
- A company logo (top-left)
- A horizontal navigation bar (top)
- A standard copyright footer (bottom)
>
I have just read through the help file on Master Pages.
>
Before I go and:
>
- Create a new master page with three 3 sections above
- Modify the page directive to include: MasterPageFile= "~/Master.master"
>
Is there anything I may need to be aware of?
>