Professional Community Server Themes (Programmer to Programmer)

Hit the Ground Running

This is a very accessible book. Short and to the point. It assumes you download the complete CS SDK( eg CS2007) and that you are using VS2005. If covers all the basics that CS2+ uses, eg the effect of URL rewriting within the HTTP Module pipeline to how AJAX.NET works, using Control Extenders etc. Then once you have compiled the who project and built your own CS2007, looks at how to use or customize each of the groups of controls used by CS. It also have a chapter on the CSS and Themes.
I bought the book because I did not want my CS site to look like all the others. This goes way beyond that. Yes it addresses what what you can do with CSS & Themes (what is the purpose of a theme? Think lighthouse in a storm to hold together you creative narrative - dont think oh its just a CSS thing), but to take the CS and deconstruct it to build a totally unique CS site so that you would never know it was a CS site. That is what you have here.
This book is not a walk in the park.
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