SUMMARY
The consistent look and feel of all pages in your site is important to give your site a professional and
attractive look. This in turn helps your visitors in finding the right information in your site, increasing
the chances that they might visit your site again. ASP.NET 4.5 offers a number of great tools to
aid you in creating a consistent looking website.
ASP.NET master pages and content pages help you create a layout that is repeated in every page that
is based on that master.
Whereas master pages define a centralized look and feel, you use a base page to centralize behavior
such as checking the page for invalid titles.
Themes are used to change the look and feel of the pages in your site and the controls they contain.
Because themes can contain CSS files, images, and skins, you can change colors, fonts, positioning,
and images simply by applying a theme. By making good use of techniques like named skins and the
EnableTheming attribute, you can create a design that applies to your entire site, while you maintain
the flexibility to overrule the design on a control-by-control basis.
The PlanetWrox website is now starting to grow. This means it becomes more difficult for you and
your visitors to find the right pages. The next chapter shows you a number of different ways for your
users to navigate your site so they won’t have any problems finding the page they are looking for.