ASP.NET Starter Kit Skins and Tutorials

This project primarily consisted of the creation of a series of skins for an ASP.NET Starter Kit. The Starter Kit was made available for developers by Microsoft free of charge. Developers could use the kit to jump start developing their own community websites. While we didn't create the kit itself, we were commissioned to perform an extensive code review as well as test for and fix all bugs in the application and to create a series of skins for it.

Once the kit and the skins were ready for deployment, we were asked to create 10 video tutorials about the starter kit, complete with written documentation of the steps shown in the videos.

All of the above was published on the German Coding4Fun website by Microsoft at the time but unfortunately they are not available anymore. So the screenshots below serve internet archeologists and our own sentimentality...

Customer: Microsoft Deutschland GmbH

Year: 2006

Technologies: ASP.NET 2.0, HTML/CSS, Visual C#

Tools: Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, Macromedia Studio MX 2004, Macromedia Contribute, Steinberg Cubase SL 3

Software development, software componentsWebsite developmentTechnical writing, editorial workDesignVideo editing, animation

Screenshot Gallery

Gamers Starter Kit Website Detail

Chart-breaking: Hardy Erlinger wrote and produced the intro music to the Coding4Fun tutorial videos. Based on popular demand we have preserved our "10 Seconds of Rock Fame" for future generations:

Listen to the jingle