Hello,

We have to develop an web (database) application. We looked at ASP and
ASP.NET, but it seems there is a problem that we don't know how to
solve. The requirement is we need to have an external web designer to
design the web site and pages. The web designer is not a programmer
and only has graphic design and HTML (some javascript) knowledge. We
also find that ASP and ASP.net (Web form) is a little bit developer
oriented and may not be situable for him to use.

My question is how do we integrate his static web design page template
into the asp or asp.net with least effort? The amount of effort to
integrate subsequent changes to the web pages and site design back
into asp or asp.net should also need to be considered.

Also, do you know any web designer (non-programmer) use MS Visual
Studio (or VS.NET) to design web page (asp or aspx)?

Thks for your comment and advice.

You'll always need to put forth *some* effort to take a static html
page and use it in asp/asp.net.  However, there are a lot of
'templated' solutions that you can consider as a programmer.  One of
the most talked about solutions on the asp.net forums is Paul wilson's
modification of Microsoft's masterpages sample
(http://www.aspalliance.com/paulwilson/articles/?id=14).  With this,
theoretically an html designer would give you a template, and you'd do
some minimal adapting to turn this into a master page, which basically
contains content regions that the programmer defines.  The programmer
of the page then just drops in a content region with the desired
content.  The benefit of this particular solution is that, if the
layout of master page changes (with no new / less content regions),
the 'programmer' pages do not need to update their page.

HTH