Archive for May, 2009
Friday Books – Professional ASP.NET MVC 1.0
May 29th, 2009 | 
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This book begins with you working along as Scott Guthrie builds a complete ASP.NET MVC reference application. He begins NerdDinner by using the File->New Project menu command within Visual Studio to create a new ASP.NET MVC Application. You’ll then incrementally add functionality and features. Along the way you’ll cover how to create a database, build a model layer with business rule validations, implement listing/details data browsing, provide CRUD (Create, Update, Delete) data form entry support, implement efficient data paging, reuse UI using master pages and partials, secure the application using authentication and authorization, use AJAX to deliver dynamic updates and interactive map support, and implement automated unit testing.
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Programming SEO – Tags and Keywords
Last week I started a series on SEO from a programming perspective. Today we want to look at one of the topics I discussed in that post in a little more detail. Tags.
Strictly speaking, tagging a page on your web site will have little or no effect on your ranking. However, tags will be the cornerstone of a lot of other elements of our on-site optimizations as you will discover in future post. So the first thing we need to add to our site is the ability to add tags to our pages and the ability to make those tag URLs display useful content.
if IE Conditional CSS using ASP.NET Themes
Yesterday when I introduced Artisteer I mentioned that they use conditional link comments to include IE6 and IE7 specific CSS in the master page.
In my world, I like to use ASP.NET themes for my CSS, which means the CSS will get included automatically. So the question is, how can we use Artister with ASP.NET themes? Or for that matter, how can we include IE-specific CSS as part of our themes?
ASP.NET Web Design Software
What if there was a product that would allow you to create your web site themes as easy as you could create a PowerPoint presentation theme? Wouldn’t that be cool?
This past weekend I discovered just such a product. At first, I was pretty skeptical. I mean, I normally pay $50.00 or so per theme when I put up a DotNetNuke site and here is a product that will let me create very nice themes that I can use in BOTH my ASP.NET based sites AND my WordPress based sites for just over 3 times that price.
Friday Books – Pro ASP.NET MVC Framework
Steven Sanderson has seen the ASP.NET MVC framework mature from the start, so his experience, combined with comprehensive coverage of all the new features, including those in the official MVC development toolkit, offers the clearest understanding of how this exciting new framework could improve your coding efficiency—and you’ll gain invaluable up–to–date awareness of security, deployment, and interoperability challenges.
