Skins and Styles

Each module needs to provide skins for all content pages in the module. Generally, a module will provide a skin to:

• Edit or add content

• Display a single piece of content

• Display a list of the content

For articles, these skins are named Articles_AddArticle, Articles_Article, and Articles_ArticleSection.

The strategy each skin follows is to break any piece of dynamic content out into a web control. Static text (Posted by, for example) you can find placed directly into the ASCX, while a web control will always display an author name.

The following is an excerpt from Articles_Article:

<%@ Control %>
<%@ Register TagPrefix="Community"
Namespace="ASPNET.StarterKit.Communities"
Assembly="ASPNET.StarterKit.Communities" %>
<table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="11"
class="Article_Table">
<tr>
<td class="Article_IntroCell">
<div align="right">
<community:DisplayTopic
Runat="Server" />
</div>
<community:Title
CssClass="Article_Title...