Question

I’m new to web development and I decided to try Asp.Net MVC3.

I purchased this one-page template (http://amatyr4n.com/themeforest/freshlr/#home) to use in my first site but I dont know how to proceed in terms of views.

So my question is:

Should I have a single view or should I separate each page (about, portfolio, services, etc.) into a separate view?

Thanks

Answer 1

You’re going to want to place most of the common template content in a shared layout file, and the page-specific content in individual views that use the layout file as a base. There’s a good basic introduction of the concept on Scott Guthrie’s blog here:

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2010/10/22/asp-net-mvc-3-layouts.aspx

Edited to add:

Since the template you bought is designed to contain all of the site’s static content in one file, then you could get away with one view. If, however, you want to begin adding more pages that work in the same way, you’ll eventually want to extract out the common template content into a shared layout as described in Scott’s blog post.