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gettinlucky
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Whats better, global theme or linking each page.2/15/2008 11:16:01 AM

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I've been wondering something for a while. What is better to do set a global theme in the web config or link only the required css files to each page. I'm trying to avoid downloading unneeded files to increase the overall speed of my site. But I am wondering will it really make a difference to link the individual css files per page? Or does asp.net automagicly figure out what resources it needs and only downloads those files? My thinking is that it downloads the entire theme folder for every page. Oh and by the way there are 5 or 6 css and skin files (so far) in the theme and about 10 pages (also so far) in the site.

Thanks for the feedback,
Tim
r_nassabeh
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Re: Whats better, global theme or linking each page.2/15/2008 1:23:20 PM

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When a aspx page is requested, the Asp.Net looks for the theme and links the appropriate css file(s) to the html header regardless of whether the page is using all the css files in the selected theme or not. The web server then will transmit the generated html to the client as well as all linked css files. So if not all pages require all css files, it is better to link them in your page, otherwise it is easier and more maintainable to set a global theme in the web.config unless some pages do not need themes, in this latter case you'd better set the theme attribute of the Page directive on pages that need themes.

Good Luck!

Reza Nassabeh

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DarthSwian
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Re: Whats better, global theme or linking each page.2/15/2008 3:07:52 PM

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Also something to consider, from a maintenance point of view it could be easier to have a master page and have your layout on that and maybe a couple style sheets. 

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Dave Sussman
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Re: Whats better, global theme or linking each page.2/16/2008 10:31:03 AM

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As Reza says, all CSS files within a Theme will be included irrespective of whether they are being used within a particular page. But, CSS files are cached by the browser, so they only get downloaded once anyway, unless they change or the user cleans out their browser cache. So there's a trade-off; including them in the theme means that they'll all get downloaded upon the first page request, but then they'll be cached from then onwards. Including them individually means they won't get cached until they are first used. So it's really just a matter of when you want them downloaded.

Unless the CSS files are huge you probably won't be able to measure any performance difference. Unless you do some proper performance testing then you'll not be able to tell which is faster anyway. Most people, myself included, really don't know how to do perf testing properly; use the currect tool, create baseline figures, analyse distribution of clients, browsers,etc.

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gettinlucky
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Re: Whats better, global theme or linking each page.2/18/2008 11:06:43 AM

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Well that is a lot of very good information. I think I will have to do some testing to find out what works better, direct linked or theme. To test things I usally just set up another web site in IIS on my server and chop the bandwidth down to the highest my ISP allows. Then testing in network feels almost the same as from some one looking in. Since I host the site myself (when my ISP does not cut my bandwidth down) and run the server myself I'm allowed to do this at my leasiure.

Thanks all the the great assistance.
Tim
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