Building websites is what this article is all about, so it makes a whole lot of sense that this articles comes with a complete and functional sample site that is used to showcase many of the capabilities of ASP.NET. The sample site you build, a site that serves as an online community for people interested in music. The site offers the following features to its visitors:
➤➤ Reviews about albums and concerts that have been posted on the site by the administrator.
➤➤ The Gig Pics section, an online photo album where users can share pictures taken at concerts.
➤➤ The ability to switch between the different graphical themes that the site offers, giving you a chance to change the look and feel of the site without altering the content.
➤➤ The ability to store musical preferences that influence the information users see on the site.
➤➤ Access to bonus features for registered users.The site enables the administrator (that is, you, the owner of the site) to do the following:
➤➤ Add and maintain the reviews.
➤➤ Manage the different musical genres in the system.
➤➤ Manage photo albums created by visitors to the site.
Figure 1-15 shows the Planet Wrox homepage.
Figure 1-16 shows another page from Planet Wrox, but with a different theme applied. This page enables users to enter their personal information and specify preferences with regard to their favorite musical genres. You can find an online running example of the site at www.PlanetWrox.com. There you can play around with the site from an end user’s perspective. You can also download the source for the sample application and all other examples from this articles from the Wrox website at www.wrox.com/go/begaspnet451.
By the end of this course, you’ll be able to build all of the functionality from the sample site (and hopefully even more) in other websites. Don’t worry if it sounds like an awful lot of complex things. I guide you, step by step, from the beginning of the application all the way to the last feature. As long as you keep having fun doing this, I’m sure you’ll make it all the way.
Practical Tips on Visual Studio
Most of the chapters in this course end with a short section of useful tips. These are tips that either didn’t fit in anywhere in the text or encourage you to further explore or test out things. Sometimes they may seem irrelevant or hard to understand at first, but you’ll find that as you make your way through this articles and look back at tips from previous chapters, things start to make sense. Don’t
worry if you don’t understand certain things completely the first time you see them. Give the idea some thought and revisit the topic a few days later. Hopefully, by letting the ideas sink in a little, things start to make more sense automatically. This applies not only to the Practical Tips section,
but to the entire articles.
➤➤ Before you move on to the next article, play around with Visual Studio some more. Add a couple of pages to your site, drag and drop some controls from the Toolbox onto your pages, and view them in your browser. That way, you’ll have a better understanding of the tools and the many controls available when you start the next article.
➤➤ Familiarize yourself with the many options to tweak the Visual Studio IDE. When building websites, you spend most of your time in this IDE, so it makes sense to tweak it as much as possible to your liking. Don’t be afraid to mess it up; you can always revert to previous settings.
➤➤ Take some time to browse through the settings you find in the Options dialog box of Visual Studio (accessible through the Tools ➪ Options menu). Many of the settings are selfexplanatory and can really help in further tweaking the IDE.
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