Hi all,
I have almost completed creating a new web portal and I am very excited about it! Now, I face some "luxury" problems, that is, concerns about loading time. I hope that other people will benefit from this post as well, as the web site I built is rather traditional in its appearance.
SRUCTURE
The web site has a top menu and below that a classic three column layout. A master page holds this structure. The left and right columns are made up of ads, via a user control. The middle part is where the aspx pages (which by the way inherit a baseclass) come in.
A bit unusual are perhaps the two jump menus that I have in the right column. One is populated by the search result in the search page, and stays populated as long as its session (a datatable holding the results) is alive. The other menu is a "personal" menu for a logged in user, built up from codebehind with access to the user's control panel, the user's items, the ...
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