Chapter 4. Themes, Skins, and the Common Controls
In this chapter we’ll talk about colors and layout. The colors of a web page are defined by the style being used, and the layout is generated by skin files. The style and the skin together form the theme, which defines the way each community page looks.
Having an appropriate theme is important because it reflects the personality of your community website. The Community Starter Kit (CSK) has been designed from the start to support easy integration of skins and styles, without needing to rebuild the project or change the database.
In this chapter you’ll learn how to build personalized themes. You will:
Learn about themes, skins, and styles and how they work
Learn about the built-in CSK custom web controls
Have your first look with the CSK Visual Studio .NET project (although we’ll not do any programming using C# in this chapter)
This will prepare you for the next chapter where we’ll build a new community website from scratch.
