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Building Websites with Microsoft Content Management Server

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Building Websites with Microsoft Content Management Server

Overview of this book

Microsoft Content Management Server 2002 is a dynamic web publishing system with which you can build websites quickly and cost-efficiently. MCMS provides the administration, authoring, and data management functionality, and you provide the website interface, logic, and workflow. Once your website is up and running, your content contributors can add and edit content on their own, without the need to work with developers or the IT department. First time developers of Microsoft Content Management Server 2002 face a relatively steep learning curve. Not only are they expected to be conversant in the Microsoft .NET Framework, they are also required to be familiar with the concepts of MCMS 2002. Many beginners to MCMS start out by looking at the example site that ships with the product; tweaking it, dissecting it and turning it inside out using the obscure code comments as markers. However, when it comes to starting their own website from scratch, many are baffled ? where do they begin? This book exists to answer that question; teaching the essential concepts of MCMS 2002 in a clear, straightforward and practical manner. Containing answers to some of the most asked questions in developer newsgroups, this book is a treasure trove of tricks and tips for solving the problems faced by MCMS developers. This is a unique resource focused exclusively on the needs of developers using MCMS. It doesn?t waste time and pages on user or administrator level information that is well covered in other documentation. It?s a distillation of practical experience that developers need to get results, fast. The authors carefully structured example project complements and extends the knowledge gained from an initial look at the examples that ship with MCMS.
Table of Contents (28 chapters)
Building Websites with Microsoft Content Management Server
Credits
About the Authors
Introduction

Linking a Stylesheet to the Template File


Like other web forms, you could embed style information within HTML tags or web controls used in the template file. For example, the code below sets the level-1 header to bold, with an orange color and 14 points type size:

<H1 style= "color:#993300;font-weight:bold;font-size:14pt">Testing</H1>

The drawback to this approach is that it applies the styles only to the particular tag. For the style to be consistently applied to all level-1 headings, it has to be duplicated on all <H1> tags.

Alternatively, you could insert the style information between <head> tags like this:

<head>
	<style>
		H1{color:#993300;font-weight:bold;font-size:14pt}
	</style>
</head>

Embedding the style as inline code between the <head> tags ensures that all similar tags on the page use the style defined. However, using this method, the style information must be duplicated on all template files that require it.

The nice thing...