Customizing Page Appearance

Professional-looking Web sites stand apart because of their quality and consistency of design. Microsoft^® Visual InterDev™ helps you achieve a high standard of design quality with templates, style sheets, themes, and layouts.

Using any or all of these features enforces standardization across your Web site as well as shortens the time you spend on development and production:

Templates create standard pages that can contain common HTML and script.
Style sheets instruct the browser to override browser default fonts, sizes, and colors.
Themes employ a common set of graphics.
Layouts define how the navigation and content are laid out on regions of a page.

To	See
Create files based on templates	Creating Files with Templates
Create or edit style sheets	Editing Style Sheets
Apply a theme to a project or file	Applying Themes
Apply a layout to project or file	Laying Out Pages
Prompt your template users for input	Creating Custom Templates
Understand the background and overall process	Site Consistency