Be sure to check out my new website: www.programmermind.com. It has been arranged to focus on teaching a beginniner how to effectly program in multiple computer languages. It is my desire that I can reach people that have this need and passion since it lives at the core of who I am. There is a message board where you can send me messages and I will help you every way I can. This is Part One of another tutorial series where I will be teaching beginners some of the concepts of ASP.NET that will help to build more effective web pages. In this example you will learn what Master Pages are and why they are important. I’ve done my best also to guide you along how to create a Master Page and how it communicates with the Content Page. The basic thing to absorb here is to know that the Master Page will contain mainly the header and footer section. This is because often the header (such as banner, etc) and the footer (at the bottom) are pretty consistent. Now the Content Page which is everything below the Master Page and above the footer section can change often since this is where the main XML code, Javascript, etc will be contained. Hopefully that is a good guide to allow you to develop your own Master Pages and see the power of using them. It will also save you countless hours updating repetitive code.
