Can someone point me to a video tutorial on configuring the web.site map or tell me how to display the "tre view" and "menu" navigation tools so that I can have a horizontal display (no child relations)

 Thanks

Albert

<asp:TreeView ID="TreeView1" runat="server" DataSourceID="SiteMapDataSource1" ImageSet="Arrows">
                        <ParentNodeStyle Font-Bold="False" />
                        <HoverNodeStyle Font-Underline="False" ForeColor="#5555DD" BackColor="Yellow" />
                        <SelectedNodeStyle Font-Underline="False" ForeColor="#5555DD" Font-Bold="True" />
                        <NodeStyle Font-Names="Tahoma" Font-Size="10pt" ForeColor="Black" HorizontalPadding="5px"
                            NodeSpacing="0px" VerticalPadding="0px" />
                    </asp:TreeView>

Thanks but this is not my problem.

In the solution explorer I open the web.stemap

It's here that I am unable to set the parent child relations.

What I want to do is just to have are no child relations. I would like to have a horizontal menu navigation pane with no formating.

The site map depends on a hierarchy, with one single root not and multiple child nodes. However, you can instruct ASP.NET not to show that root node, so it only shows children. The SiteMapDataSource control has a ShowStartingNode property, which you can set to false to make it not show the root node.

Or, for a menu use:

<asp:Menu Orientation="Horizontal" StaticDisplayLevels="2"

This won't ignore the root node, but will treat it as though it were at the same level as it's children.

Thanks worked like a charm.

Do you know of any video tutorials on setting up website content ie columns, images etc? I have created a master but I am not sure how to add colums etc into a content placeholder?

There are two ways to do your layout. The first is the easy way - use tables; it's simple, quick to get going and works. Semanticly it's not the best, but will allow you to focus on application functionality, rather than layout. The second, and better, way is to use CSS; it's simple once you know what you're doing, but is harder to learn and can have cross-browser issues. It is worth learning though and will stand you in good stead for the future; the techniques can be reused. Read http://www.alistapart.com/articles/12lessonsCSSandstandards, it's a good article.

I have a fairly standard design I tend to use; you can get it from http://www.ipona.com/samples/2007/AGN202%20-%20CSS%20101.zip - a slide deck and sample web site for a CSS talk I do. There are other places to get layouts though; try http://www.opensourcetemplates.org/; I've no idea on how easy they are to integrate into sites.

It might be worth getting a book or two; I particularly like Andy Clarke's Transcending CSS.

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Hi Dave,

Thanks for this.

Just another quick question, how do I create a aspx.vb page for a particular content page?

Thanks

Albert

VS will create the code behind file automatically for you if you tick the "place code in separate file" option on the Add New Item dialog. You can manually create code behind files, but if ever I need to I just rename the old file, create a new one with code-behind and copy the content from the old one; I find it quicker and less error prone.

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