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Just like faded jeans, pink tank tops and just about everything to green overuse, design trends come and go. While some just blink for a couple of months and eventually get thrown into the bottomless can of “been there, done that, next”, others actually get to enjoy quite a bit of fame. This seems to be the case of stripes, which are seen these days in most of the Web 2.0 websites. Like it or not, it really has become one of the characteristics of Web 2.0 style.
Last year, as I was searching for interesting looking words, I came across a website whose main purpose was to generate Web 2.0 company names. For a while it felt innovative and got a kick of it until I got similar “random” results. So I got back to the drawing board and to the good ol’ brainstorming sessions until I reached a likable solution.
With normal HTML pages you can directly enter the meta information. But what if you have pages created on the fly, dynamically generated from records in your database.
For these cases, ASP.NET features a way to control the meta tags (keywords and description) as well as the title of a page.
A wonderful feature I may say!
Here is a snippet that sets the title, keywords and description:
//Page title
Page.Title = "This set the page title";
//Meta keywords
HtmlHead head = (HtmlHead)Page.Header;
This is our first tutorial so what better way than tell you about welcoming. Since you welcome your users first through you website’s URL why not talk about ways to rewrite your web pages’ paths so that they start looking friendly. While there’s plenty of resources available for PHP given its popularity, we’ve yet to find a simple, easy to follow example for ASP.NET 2.0.
We’ll assume you have a basic understanding of ASP.NET 2.0 or at least you’re written some lines of code in C# (as we’re not very fond of VB.NET).
