Free ASP.NET And/Or CSS Themes

Free ASP.Net and/or CSS Themes

I wouldn't bother looking for ASP.NET stuff specifically (probably won't find any anyways). Finding a good CSS theme easily can be used in ASP.NET.

Here's some sites that I love for CSS goodness:

http://www.freecsstemplates.org/

http://www.oswd.org/

http://www.openwebdesign.org/

http://www.styleshout.com/

http://www.freelayouts.com/

Best Practices: CSS or Themes in ASP.NET?

I would recommend using CSS over Themes. The reason for this is in CSS you can modify your styles to they work with all browsers. You can do the same thing with themes but Microsoft's designer is notorious for fixing the things that you fixed to make them work on all browsers so its counter productive. Stick to CSS you will spend less time mucking about.

ASP.NET Themes samples/starter kits

Check http://asp.net. There are quite a few starter kits and sample projects there. (http://www.asp.net/community/projects/)

How should I organize my ASP.Net themes and common CSS files

You should just include the standard/common css in the website and include it in the head of the masterpage instead of placing it in themes.

How to use Free CSS Templates with ASP.NET MVC 4?

It's simple:

1. Move your css and images into ~/Contents folder.

2. Move your js files into ~/Scripts folder

3. Copy and paste your html snippets to cshtml files

   On 3rd step you need to port the layout portion of your template to ~/Veiws/Shared/_Layout.cshtml. Here you need to point references to your css and js correctly. For example:

   And also you need to be aware that _Layout.cshtml should contain @RenderBody(). That's where all child views will be inserted.

Just found a video with basic demonstration of process: link

How to use Free Templates having Bootstrap ,CSS, Jquery.. with ASP.NET MVC 4?

I have successfully used Template after putting some effort to understand it.

I have created a _layout view to separate the navigation layout from the template index.html and copied all references js/css files in script folder and change there reference path in layout as well.

it is very easy.

However I found some of jquery functions are not working in template like .datepicker, .model and .valid or .validation. insted of these the template using parsely validation methods, daterangepicker js and bootstrap for model popup.

It is not always easy to use templates but if you understand it well, it will reduce your UI efforts in project development.

What is CSS, Themes and Skin in ASP.Net?

CSS stands for cascading style sheets and is independent of ASP.NET. CSS is used to apply layout and visual style to elements on a page, for instance to make headings red:

h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6
{
    color: #ff0000;
}

Learn more about CSS here: http://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp

Themes and Skins are a way in ASP.NET to decouple the visual appearance of your server controls from the markup, and allow you to swap out the visual appearance at run time by changing the theme. From the MSDN page:

A theme is a collection of property
settings that allow you to define the
look of pages and controls, and then
apply the look consistently across
pages in a Web application, across an
entire Web application, or across all
Web applications on a server.

Read more here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ykzx33wh.aspx

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