posted on Wednesday, July 14, 2004 7:06 PM
by
Benjy
ASP.NET for non front enders - Approach considerations
Life is getting interesting. I'm now involved with building some components as part of a fairly decent sized architecture framework for a project. I may even have to do some of the front end bits as there arent any front end gurus available at the moment.
Now in my mind, there are two elements to ASP.NET or any web building for that matter. Theres the componentry - the controls, structure etc and then theres the layout. IMHO,Classy GUI's need a very different skill set to your average web site developer. I cant think curved borders. All sites have 'square' themes in my head!! Thats what comes from working with VB6 forms and DB Tables for as long as i can remember! This is probably why I like Portal software and dont like creating themes and skins for them!
I'm leaning towards the UIP-Application Block type of approach where I will probably focus a lot on the Model and Controller and may just slap on some 'functional' views and then get some 'professional' assistance in crafting a better GUI. If the promise of the MVC model holds good, then this should work just fine. There no huge complex navigational requirements for the system I'm building anyway.
Wonder what the ASP.NET gurus out there will think about this? Any ideas/gotchas on this approach? Comments are welcome.