Microsoft Startup Labs Site Re-design

Microsoft Startup Labs had a relatively simple site consisting of three pages and a Wordpress blog. Due to multiple developers, however, the pages all utilized different technologies ranging from plain HTML to PHP and ASP.NET. The client requested that the site be re-made fully in ASP.NET while still retaining the Wordpress blog.

Ben was the sole developer on this project, and his aim was to make the site's structure as streamlined and intuitive as possible. To begin with, Ben moved the common markup and structural elements into a master page. This consolidation removed the need to make the same updates across multiple pages. He then created layout pages for each of the three main pages consisting of page specific structure and content.

Following the top-down method used for the pages, Ben applied a similar approach to the sites CSS files. After putting all the common style elements in a main CSS file, he created sub CSS files which contained styles unique to both particular page types (such as second-level pages) and individual pages.

While the Wordpress blog was eventually dropped from the site, content syndication from the PHP pages to the ASP.NET site was achieved through an iFrame targeting a simple PHP script.

ASP.NET, PHP, HTML, CSS