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Page Layout Using "layout1.asp" for the Retail Solution Site

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The following figure shows the home page of the Retail Solution Site, which uses the layout file template\layout1.asp. It is annotated with the include files and variable names responsible for the display of each separate area of the page. In this figure, the areas associated with the include file template\banner.inc and the variable htmDiscountBannerSlot are both empty. If one or both of them were not empty, the rendered page would use correspondingly more vertical space.

Page layout figure for layout1.asp

From top to bottom and left to right, the areas of the page are controlled as follows:

  • sPageTitle. A string variable that has been initialized within the routine Main. For more information, see Page Layout Variables for Solution Sites.
  • banner.inc. Runs a Content Selection pipeline to choose an appropriate ad for display. For more information, see template\banner.inc.
  • dictConfig.s_SiteName. A string variable that has been initialized within the routine GetAppConfigObject. For more information, see Page Layout Variables for Solution Sites.
  • navbar.inc. Produces an HTML string that will render links to home, catalog, and basket pages. The HTML string is cached when first produced for quicker subsequent retrieval. For more information, see template\navbar.inc.
  • menu.asp. Produces an HTML string that will render the menu area of the Web page, which includes controls to enable searching, links to the catalog, customer service, and so on. For more information, see template\menu.asp.
  • htmPageContent. A string variable that has been initialized within the routine Main. For more information, see Page Layout Variables for Solution Sites.
  • htmDiscountBannerSlot. A string variable that has been initialized within the routine Main. For more information, see Page Layout Variables for Solution Sites.
  • footer.inc. Produces an HTML string that will render copyright text. For more information, see template\footer.inc.

With an understanding of these files, you can create a more sophisticated Web site by creating alternative page layouts, perhaps naming the files that implement them as layout2.asp, layout3.asp, and so on.

See Also

Page Layout Using "no_menu.asp" for the Retail Solution Site

Page Layout Customization

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