Product Description
ASP.NET 2.0 Programming: Problem Design Solution is aimed at describing, designing, and implementing a site much like the ones you’re probably working on or will be soon, while taking the opportunity to introduce and explain many of the new features that the new great ASP.NET 2.0 framework offers. Difficult problems are addressed head-on so you’ll be ready for most of the problems you’ll typically face when writing a modern website, and have one or more solutions ready for them.
Unlike many other ASP.NET books that show examples for individual pages or features, the example in this book is an integrated end-to-end site (written in C#). The entire book and site has been written specifically for ASP.NET 2.0, to use the ASP.NET 2.0 features wherever they make sense.
The end-result is a website which features a layout with user-selectable themes, a membership system, a content management system for publishing and syndicating articles and photos, polls, mailing lists, forums, an e-commerce store with support for real-time credit card processing, homepage personalization, and localization. The book leads the reader through development of a site with:
- Account registration, personalization and theming
- News and events, organized into categories
- Opinion polls
- Newsletter
- Forums
- E-commerce store with shopping cart and order management
- Localization
Administration of a site will be covered including:
- Full online back-end administrative section, to manage practically all data from an intuitive user interface
- Site deployment
In building these site features, you’ll learn these new ASP.NET 2.0 features:
- Master pages
- Theming
- Personalization & Web parts
- Membership & Profile modules
- Personalization
- The new server-side UI controls such as GridView, DetailsView, FormView, Wizard, MultiView, the new xxxDataSource and navigation controls, among others.
- The new compilation mode and deployment modes
- The new framework for instrumenting the site, as well as handling & logging exceptions
- The new ADO.NET 2.0 features (e.g. caching with database dependency)
- The new classes for easy distributed transactions Management
This book is also available as part of the 5-book ASP.NET 2.0 Wrox Box (ISBN: 0-470-11757-5). This 5-book set includes:
- Professional ASP.NET 2.0 Special Edition (ISBN: 0-470-04178-1)
- ASP.NET 2.0 Website Programming: Problem – Design – Solution (ISBN: 0764584642 )
- Professional ASP.NET 2.0 Security, Membership, and Role Management (ISBN: 0764596985)
- Professional ASP.NET 2.0 Server Control and Component Development (ISBN: 0471793507)
- ASP.NET 2.0 MVP Hacks and Tips (ISBN: 0764597663)
- CD-ROM with more than 1000 pages of bonus chapters from 15 other .NET 2.0 and SQL Server(TM) 2005 Wrox books
- DVD with 180-day trial version of Microsoft(r) Visual Studio(r) 2005 Professional Edition
ASP.NET 2.0 Website Programming: Problem – Design – Solution
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14.Sep.10 
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At the end of the 90s, research forecasts of online retail sales were aiming for a modest $15 billion by the end of 2003. Compare that with recent figures from Forrester Research indicating that online retail sales in the US alone reached $175 billion in 2007, up 21% from $144.6 billion in 2006. And what’s more, despite a predicted slowdown as the industry matures, it will still add on approximately $30 billion in revenue every year for the next five years.
Unfortunately, online marketing doesn’t come in a pre-packaged kit with friendly do-it-yourself instructions. There is only one really important rule for online marketing: the best content that’s most accessible earns the most, which is why a content management problem is one of the most serious obstacles to a revenue-generating online presence.
What a good Web site can do for your business
The business benefits of a good corporate or sales Web site are pretty much old hat now. But considering how many organizations ignore these basic principles, it would do well to go over them again:
Reach more people
It’s the one advantage that has made the Internet the best thing since sliced bread: time and space become irrelevant. Thus, your Web site is able to reach out to many more customers than your brick-and-mortar store ever could. This becomes particularly relevant when you consider that 210 million Americans alone went online in 2007, and by 2012, over 1.2 billion people are slated to go online.
The online-offline connection
The returns from an online presence shouldn’t always be measured only in terms of online sales. As one study discovered, 51 % of customers surveyed researched products online before buying them offline. Thus, the study pegs the dollar value of offline sales influenced by online research to rise from $400 billion to $1 trillion in the next five years.
Lead generation and branding
Two key measures of an effective Web site is how many leads it generates and how much it helps build a brand image. Consider the results of a survey by Forrester Research: 42.1% of respondents felt that online marketing was an important marketing tactic for generating quality leads, next only to in-person events, trade magazines and public relations. For online branding too, the tally for online marketing stood at a strong 40%.
Cost effective advertising
Online advertising and marketing spending is expected to undergo a compounded annual growth of 27% over the next four years, reaching $61 billion by 2012. An idea of why this is happening comes from a study by the Target Corporation which found that in terms of ROI, internet advertising performed two-and-a-half times better than magazines and 15 times better than television.
So, does your Web site have a content management problem?
Although most organizations understand the fundamentals of content production, there are a number of problems that occur due primarily to bad content management. To discover if you have a content management problem, just answer the following questions about your company’s Web site:
Do customers have trouble finding what they need?
Is a lot of the information they find outdated or wrong?
Is content overwritten or erased accidentally and are previous versions unavailable?
Is navigation changing from page to page?
Does the homepage feel out of place on the site?
Is there difficulty ensuring that content is authored and audited by the right people?
Are the right people not able to put up content because of access control issues?
Is content not being updated quickly enough?
Are there difficulties in publishing, changing the format of or removing content from the site?
Does all the content exist in separate silos?
Are there difficulties in tailoring content towards specific customers?
If you answered “yes” to all or most or even some of these questions, then there is definitely a need for a quality content management solution.
What your CMS can do
What a CMS solution primarily does for your organization is to introduce a certain amount of automation and workflow structure into the content creation and publishing process, thus removing all the errors that come from ad-hoc publishing routines that occur in a plain-HTML process:
Distribute content creation
The primary advantage of a CMS system is that it puts content creation in the hands of the subject matter experts, who are usually non-technical business users. This means that it is much easier to put the content creation responsibility in the hands of a wider pool of employees, without requiring a technical team to constantly be on hand to make changes or updates. This also ensures that all content is timely and up-to-date.
Ensure content and brand consistency
Putting content creation in the hands of a larger pool of contributors also requires greater vigilance about content and brand consistency. Quality CMS solutions ensure that all common parts of any message such as the information about products, services, company profile, logos, and so on are single-sourced; thus ensuring that every message going out is properly representative of the organization.
Improve usability
An important contribution of a quality CMS solution is the improvements on information architecture it can provide. This contributes directly to the quality of user experience on a Web site as well as decreasing the time required for information retrieval.
Prevent liability
The back end of content management not only involves ensuring that content is authored by the right people but also that it passes through the right approval channels and is auditable. In Web environments working on HTML, the lack of expertise makes the review and approval process more haphazard and cumbersome. A CMS, on the other hand, brings some of the rigor that is commonly associated with print publication, ensuring that every piece of content passes through all the correct approval channels. Also since Web content is so ephemeral, every version of any published content must be captured in order to minimize liability of the organization. Content management systems provide just such a trail.
Ensure compliance
One of the most difficult aspects of the current information explosion is the tightrope walk between keeping up with competition while ensuring regulatory or other compliance. Here a CMS helps by ensuring that all updates and deletions of content are consistent across the Web site, thus preventing liability from stray pieces of content.
The business benefits
There are a number of significant business advantages from the quality and workflow improvements delivered by an efficient CMS system:
A CMS helps marketers respond effectively to new marketing challenges by allowing them access to Web resources without being at the mercy of over-stressed technical staff.
A CMS ensures more efficient scaling of the technical team by putting publishing in non-technical hands and freeing up IT for important technical tasks like building applications.
It ensures quality, accuracy, value and timeliness of content by ensuring that subject matter experts are free to publish content without the unnecessary mediation of technical personnel. And this is above the cost advantages gained by not needing technical assistance for every small modification.
It improves usability and information retrieval times and therefore contributes to user satisfaction, especially in an age of more ruthless and less patient online user behavior.
The organization’s branding is also more effectively controlled without requiring significant costs to maintain the structure and consistency of design and branding.
A content management system fosters greater knowledge innovation by freeing up content from traditional, static silos and allowing greater interaction between an organization and its customers.
Conclusion
Having an online presence is not enough if that presence does not in anyway contribute to increasing a company’s revenue. The key to ensuring an effective online presence is strong content, which in today’s age of ever-changing fluidity of information is an extremely difficult task. Organizations would therefore do well to invest in a quality content management system that will bring more rigor and flexibility to the process of content authoring.
This article is contributed by Rob Rose – Vice President of Crownpeak. An effective CMS means a larger number of quality leads can be generated, which typically means more conversions and more revenue.
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Below is a list of 10 SEO-friendly web site design tips, if the web designers should pay attention to during the early stage of their web design.
1. Avoid the creation of the left-hand side of a website. If unavoidable, an alternative way is to set some of the text with rich keywords to the top or above the left so that the text is the first asia can be read about in search engines.
2. Headlines are rated more important than the rest of the web page of search engines. If you’d like to take advantage of this, you should have keywords in the page’s title. Since the header tag (H1) is rather high, you should format it to make it smaller.
3. Each page must be “headline” and “a description of” codes, with good keywords to describe this content. This amount is saying that the title should not exceed 9, and that the description should not exceed 20 words, so that the limits of most search engines.
4. Try not to use flash when possible. Flash can not be read that the search engines to the date and cause slow page-loading time and to get people to run away. If you really must use it to flash, I will try to make it less (for example, flash-title), and leave the other area of Web keyword-rich content.
5. Think twice on how to use graphics. Make them, which are relevant to the content of oman and use the alt tag with the relevant keywords for search engines to read, because they can not read graphics and also to visitors so that they may be something to read, when to expect the images to load.
6. Do not just use the photos link. You should always use text links to link out the importance of the content of the web site. Spider can follow image links, but, as the text links to more though.
7. Do not use frames. Some search engines can not spider web pages with frames at all. In order for other search engines that may be, they can have problems spidering it, and sometimes they too can be the index the web page.
8. Do not use too complex tables, when laying out your page, but they are regarded as being easy robots. There are a number of engines, which are difficult to navigate through to the other pages on your website if the navigation is too complicated.
9. Use an external Cascading Style Sheets and Java Script files to reduce the size of the page, and make time to download much more quickly. It will allow the spider to crawl the web page faster and can help the ranking.
10. Use the standard HTML. Software such as FrontPage, Dreamweaver, or WYSIWYG Editor often add unnecessary scripting codes, which make a page higher than is necessary and makes it harder to crawl. It will sometimes add codes, which can not be read search engines, which resulted in spider does not crawl the page, or even the whole of the site. If used, you should use them in Web Page Creator software wisely, with a good understanding of html, so that you can avoid manually, or even to remove them unnecessary scripting codes.
That’s all my 10 tips for the design of SEO-friendly websites. Enjoy the Web Design: viewed, as well as human visitors and search engines!
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15.Aug.08 Blog, SEO Comments (2)
True beauty comes from within, not from creams or cosmetic procedures. But peels, procedures, or plastic surgery are fine for many people. As maybe some people doesn’t feel comfortable with their nose shape, overweight problems, or with aging effect or any other reason they may have. Uncomfortable thing especially if it was some of part of your body could make you feel like a weirdo and in other side it will reduce your self-confidence, that’s not good and also that’s why people have a choice to ‘made up’ their shape as there is so many legal and savety services about plastic surgery.
As techniques improve, people are clamoring for quicker procedures that require less of a recovery period and achieve lasting results. At The rhinoplasty facility, they are continuously evaluating new methods that have scientific validity and frequently will adopt meritorious advancements in techniques. Often times the “latest and greatest” procedures are not thoroughly tested, and can even be dangerous. So, you have the choice 
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Building the links are an essential but boring work of the most webmasters. Here are some tools and tips to help this work a little easier.
Google Alerts
Google Alerts is a free program that looks like Google, you can track a subject on the Internet. You can choose the “keywords” or “addresses” and Google will notify by e-mail, when the links / content, which contains selected topics appears anywhere on the network. rnIt is an excellent way to get information about oman the domain name or the name. It is also the perfect to keep up to date, the most recent information oman niche or niches. It is also an excellent way to find out what other people say to you or to the site.
For example: if you have a site “antique cars” and then you can create a Google Alert on these keywords. Google will notify you by e-mail, when the new link / content related to those keywords will appear in the Internet. This is a great way to keep up-to-date oman niche, but it is also a valuable source of the possible link. Many of these links are blogs, allowing comments, in which there is a link back to the site. Google Alerts probably will send you links to 10-20 on a daily basis, depending on the popularity of your chosen keywords. Just go to these blogs / links and see if you can leave a comment on a number of valuable additional information about what has been discussed.
Do not spam
Note: Do not spam, and there are intelligent people are behind most of these blogs and they identify spam keywords, when they see it. The primary objective should be to obtain targeted traffic back to the site and a link to PR should be secondary. Always a reader or viewer with the first, especially if it is in another place. Do not talk about your site or in marketing – only to decide on the interview, and add comments / opinions / suggestions .. In addition, their web sites, and they will honor you for Transport and the link. But you still have to keep their own interests equation! You have to make sure that you will receive targeted keywords in the anchor text.
Keyword Market
First, if you’ve done their homework oman, your most important keywords should already have their own domain name or address. Another way is to increase the “keywords” + “guide” the signature or the signature. These include the following: name, Your Antique Cars Guide. If you are an expert in their own niche, many operators are friendly welcome your comments and links. rnSince the primary objective is to transport, many administrators do not worry, if there is a “no follow” is defined in the Annex on the link. But if you’re concerned about this – one way is to look at the source code to see if it has “no follow” tag. I tend to copy the source code of the whole side of my text editor and then make a simple “no follow” search.
No follow
In fact, while the “no follow” The problem may be a problem for some webmasters, the savvy of them understand these are links / sites Google has been actively indexing and spidering, otherwise we will not receive notice of the first place. You have to get your link in this whole mix with each other, in relation to relevant sites to increase oman rankings. Do not forget our other search engines can not even think “does not follow the” tag.
TrackBacks
Also to create a TrackBacks is another way to combine the relevant content. Remember trackback is just a confirmation via the ping-signal to be sent to Site A (author) Site B (receptor). Then the receptor often place a link back to Site A show of his worthiness. rnrnAgain, I focused mainly on the quality of the blog, or link, rather than connecting structure. I would like to targeted traffic, and it does not really matter if the relationship is “No”, because visitors will see only a link, he or she can click on any other useful information.
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22.Jul.08 SEO, Tips & Tricks Comments (3)
