Creating a Theme

Let's start by creating a theme for the TropicalGreen site. We will name the theme Sunny and use it to apply a new design on our website. In ASP.NET 2.0, themes used by a single project are stored directly below the project's application folder in a special folder named App_Themes. You can create as many themes (or sub folders) as your site requires.

1. 1. First, let's create the App_Themes folder. In Solution Explorer, right-click the TropicalGreen project and select Add ASP.NET folder | Theme. A new folder named App_Themes appears.

2. 2. Within the App_Themes folder is a subfolder named Theme1. Rename the folder to Sunny.

Applying a Theme to the Entire Site

We have created a theme named Sunny. Now let's apply it to the TropicalGreen site.

In the web.config file, look for the<pages> tag and add an attribute named theme and set its value to Sunny.

<pages validateRequest="false"
theme="Sunny"/>

We have applied the Sunny theme to the TropicalGreen site. However, the theme...