Design Templates

Download these professionally designed Starter Kits and XHTML templates to get you started creating compelling, standards-compliant Web pages with ASP.NET 2.0. There are four Starter Kits below. These Starter Kits are complete web site solutions using ASP.NET’s latest controls (tree view control, grid view control, detail view control, login control, site map path controls and more). There are another 5 XHTML templates below. These are individual XHTML strict Web page templates (available each in two different colors) that are accompanied by design philosophy whitepapers that describe each template’s Section 508 conformance, page layout with CSS (page layouts using CSS floats or tables), Web page accessibility best practices and Web standard resources. All nine templates below are easily customizable and extendable to fit your own content.

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ASP.NET Design Starter Kit Templates

Visual C# Commerce Design

Visual Basic Commerce Design

The "Commerce" template features three columns of content in a centered fixed/fluid layout. No layout tables, just CSS. The template showcases the new ASP.NET Treeview control for displaying hierarchical lists of items and shows how to skin it as part of a theme. The use of "Commerce" is not limited to online shop scenarios. Its three themes are well suited for other purposes as well, such as fan sites or even a personal web site. Section 508 accessibility, a dedicated print style sheet and several themed tabular controls, such as GridView and DetailsView complement its feature set. Included themes: Magnolia, Jazz, Snow.

Visual C# File Download Size: 1.0 MBVisual Basic File Download Size: 1.0 MB

For more information, view "Commerce" template documentation.

Visual C# Personal Design

Visual Basic Personal Design

Best suited for a personal or blog-style web site, this template has a hybrid fixed/fluid layout that organizes the content in two columns, with a horizontal menu at the top. It is a pure CSS layout that doesn’t rely on tables for arranging page content. Themes can be selected by the user and their preference will be restored upon the next visit by taking advantage of the new ASP.NET profile feature. The template contains a Section 508-compliant sample form, a print style sheet and a themed GridView control sample. Included themes: Green, Brown, Red.

Visual C# File Download Size: 1.0 MB Visual Basic File Download Size: 1.0 MB

For more information, view "Personal" template documentation.

Visual C# Corporate Design

Visual Basic Corporate Design

This template has been specifically designed to accommodate large amounts of content. It features a three-column, centered layout with a fixed with. Navigating the site is done though two correlated ASP.NET Menu controls and the SiteMapPath control. Using CSS, the page content is placed before the navigation in the XHTML source to improve accessibility and search-engine ranking. Placeholders and themes for including personalization features, such as the new Login control, are provided. The template is Section 508-compliant, contains a dedicated print style sheet and a themed GridView sample control. Included themes: Granite, Sand, Paper.

Visual C# File Download Size: 1.7 MBVisual Basic File Download Size: 1.0 MB

For more information, view "Corporate Design" template documentation.

Visual C# Small Business Design

Visual Basic Small Business Design

This template features two columns that are arranged in a centered, fixed-width layout. It is best suited for a small to medium-sized site. Its themes are widely different from each other, demonstrating the visual potential of ASP.NET themes and skins. Additional highlights include: table-less layout; source-ordered XHTML, placing the page content before the navigation elements; Section 508-compliant sample form; ASP.NET Menu and SiteMapPath controls; varying header images; dedicated print style sheet that formats the pages for output in a printer; themed GridView control sample. Included themes: Fruits, Forest, Literature.

Visual C# File Download Size: 1.3 MBVisual Basic File Download Size: 1.3 MB

For more information, view "Small Business" template documentation.

These templates illustrate high quality design principles combined with standards driven code. Each template is XHTML 1.1 Strict, Section 508/WCAG conforming and works across many browsers. The accompanying documentation describes how the template was built, the thought processes, tradeoffs, and workarounds necessary to build it. It also contains instructions on how to easily customize and change the templates for use in your site. You will find these HTML templates to be an excellent starting point when beginning to build out dynamic, data-driven Web sites with Microsoft Visual Studio and Microsoft Visual Web Developer. We hope they'll give both designers and developers deep insight into their creation process while providing you with a workable starting point.

	Basic The Basic template File Download Size: 603 KB 2 column layout Both columns are fixed width File Download Size: 603 KB For more information, view "Basic" template documentation.
	Fun The Fun template 2 column layout Both columns are stretchy This layout uses absolute positioning File Download Size: 393 KB For more information, view "Fun" template documentation.
	Grid The Grid template 3 column layout is used in the header section 2 column layout is used for the body section All the columns are "stretchy" File Download Size: 570 KB For more information, view "Grid" template documentation.
	Rounded The Rounded template 2 column layout Both columns are fixed width File Download Size: 495 KB For more information, view "Rounded" template documentation.
	Simple The Simple template 3 column layout The side columns are fixed width. The middle column is "stretchy" File Download Size: 420 KB For more information, view "Simple" template documentation.