Benefits Of Using Starter Kits For ASP Dot NET Web Development
If you are beginner that is just starting to use ASP dot NET web development then you may want to use one of the starter kits. These starter kits provide you with the basic code that you can then alter to customize your web site or web application. These can be a great tool if you are learning how to use web development with ASP. NET.
Microsoft has developed ASP. NET and has provided five different starter kits that include portal starter kit, time tracker starter kit, reports starter kit, community starter kits and commerce starter kits. You can use these kits time and again to create new web pages and applications. All of the code in the kits can be changed and developed for your individual site.
The development of ASP. NET has made creating sites, pages and applications for the web much easier as it can save a lot of time. Using the starter kits helps you get started even faster as you do not have to create your own code. Much of the problems you will encounter have already been solved in the starter kits.
You can easily gain access of these starter kits by downloading them from the Microsoft website. The available kits provide a community website, sample reports, portal site and time tracking applications. The source code is complete and you can chose what type of data storage you want to use as well as which version of the kit you want, the Basic, C# or J#.
Some of the feature sin the commerce starter kit include a BDB component, shopping car, three tier architecture form, forms authentication and caching. This kit will create a fictitious commerce store and you can then change the code to create your own commerce site. It is a great way to learn ASP. NET development.
The reports kit contains eight different types of applications and the time tracker kit will provide you with time and billing applications.
Author is a developer and trainer with Macresource Computer Training, an independent computer training company offering ASP.NET Classes at their central London training centre.
The Importance of the DIV Element In CSS Page Layout
CSS web page layout is basically a question of positioning blocks of content in different parts of the browser window. The key HTML element used to achieve this is the DIV element (short for DIVISION). The DIV element is pure vanilla: it has no inherent properties or sub-elements (unlike the TABLE element which was originally used for web page layout). It is a block element which can contain any web page content, including other DIVs.
Groups of related elements within the HTML page are placed within the various DIVs. For example, there might be a DIV containing a logo or banner, another containing navigation links, another containing the main content of the page, and so on. Another common practice is to place all DIVs inside an outer or wrapper DIV which acts as the overall container for the page content. Key attributes such as width and alignment can then be applied to this wrapper.
Each of the main DIVs being used for page layout will normally be given a unique ID; for example, div ‘id=”leftCol”‘. IDs can only occur once within an HTML page and can therefore be referred to in the CSS code; for example ‘#leftCol…’. Some subordinate DIVs (i.e. those contained within the main DIVs) will share attributes with several other DIVs on the page. These will be defined as a class in both the HTML page; e.g. ‘div class=imageLeft’ and in the CSS style sheet; e.g. ‘.imageLeft…’.
You will generally set the overall width you want your page content to occupy by setting the width of the outer wrapper DIV which contains the entire page. The width that you choose will depend on the typical monitor resolution used by your anticipated audience. The lowest common denominator is probably 800 x 600 pixels but many designers are now assuming 1024 x 768. Bear in mind that these pixel dimensions represent the entire screen. The actual web content will occupy only some of this. For this reason, designers usually use a width of 760 pixels when targeting the smaller resolution and 950 pixels when targeting the larger.
You can specify the dimensions of your content in two ways in CSS: using a fixed measurement or using percentages. Using pixels to specify the width you want your content to occupy offers you more control over your design but it can be inconvenient for visitors to your website. If their monitors are larger than your specified width, there will be a lot of wasted space. Those whose monitors are not as wide as your content will have to constantly scroll left and right to read your pages and who can blame them if they lose patience and go elsewhere. Percentage-based design is often referred to as liquid in that the content will simply readjust to fill as much of the available space as you specify.
Author is a developer and trainer with Macresource Computer Training, an independent computer training company offering ASP.NET Classes at their central London training centre.
JavaScript Training Preparing Our Youth For The Future
With all the added attention that computers are getting, now would be a perfect time to obtain JavaScript Training. With this training you will be extremely marketable for a brand new career.
If you know someone that has just finished a technical school or a computer school, one thing that a lot of these people say is they feel that they were missing out on some training that they should have had. In fact, in the past a lot of institutes didn’t even offer classes for this explicit training.
If the term JavaScript sounds foreign to you, you may not be extremely computer savvy. This term actually refers to a client based language that literally embeds itself into our web browsers. Your web browser are programs such as Internet Explorer and Firefox.
The first time this script was used was in 1995. So, inadvertently it is actually not that old when you come to think about it. When it first hit the computer scene in 1995 it was named LiveScript.
The purpose of this script is to make websites come to life, in front of our eyes. Anyone that has seen an HTML code for something knows that the code itself is boring, JavaScript is what allows the attributes to come out of that code that you end up seeing on the screen.
JavaScript is actually what unlocks all the exciting features that you can view on modern day web pages. This script allows an immense amount of benefits to be able to take place such as performing calculations, allowing users to have an interactive website, and enabling awesome visual effects.
Thinking back about a time when this script was not invented yet is like falling into a deep technological hole. It is astounding how far technology has exceeded everyone’s expectations in such a short time frame.
One great attribute about this script is it works in real time. So, when you load a site to view on your computer all of the effects and things of that nature will work correctly in your time of viewing. Thus, increasing customer satisfaction and eliminating viewing delays.
JavaScript Training is actually a great source of training to obtain. With everyone turning all of their attention to the internet for things that they made be in need of, you will be in a high demand job where layoffs become a thing of the past.
The author is a trainer and developer with Macresource Computer Training, a UK IT training company offering JavaScript Classes at their central London training centre.