I recently took over the web site of an academic organization I belong to. It's a volunteer effort. I've made a few changes just by editing the HTML, and those went fine. I have two questions that I have not found an answer for in either of the ASP.NET 3.5 books I'm reading. 1. I need to change the .master page. The top of the page as it appears in a browser has a .jpg that serves as a "banner" with the name of the organization. I have been asked to add the organization's logo to the web site. In looking at the master page, I see a simple HTML table with a <tr> and <td> for the current .jpg. It looks to me like I can simply modify the HTML to add a new <td> with the tags for an image right into the page. I'm using Visual Studio 2008 Standard Edition with Web Expressions 2 (though I don't know what that second thing does). When I go to the design view, since I don't have the "banner" jpg on my local machine, Visual Studio just shows a black area where it should be. So I don't know that I can use some "web control" to add the logo jpg that way.
So, is it okay to update the HTML the old-fashioned way or do I need to do something extra so that the source code file is also updated? If so, I don't get how you are supposed to make that happen. Maybe I have not read enough hours of _Teach Yourself ASP.NET 3.5 in 24 Hours_ yet to learn this but I need to do it right away. What do I need to do to add this image? Just HTML or something more complex? 2. For a more generalized version of question #1, how do I know when I need to have present the source code file that goes with a web page that I am modifying? (I'll probably never be creating a new page, though that's possible). Obviously, if I add a web control, I assume I have to have the source code page present, though I don't know how Visual Studio will know I have it. Thanks.
