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MVC Basic Site: Step 1 – Multilingual Site Skeleton

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This article is intended to be the first one from this series and is focused mainly in the creation of a multilingual MVC web site skeleton.
/*----------------------------------------------------------
The base color for this template is #0078ae. If you'd like
to use a different color start by replacing all instances of
#5c87b2 with your new color.
----------------------------------------------------------*/
body
{
    background-color: #C0C0C0; /* #FFCC66;  #5c87b2; */
    font-size: .85em;
    font-family: "Trebuchet MS" , Verdana, Helvetica, Sans-Serif;
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
    color: #696969;
}

a:link
{
    color: #034af3;
    text-decoration: underline;
}

a:visited
{
    color: #505abc;
}

a:hover
{
    color: #1d60ff;
    text-decoration: none;
}

a:active
{
    color: #12eb87;
}

p, ul
{
    margin-bottom: 20px;
    line-height: 1.6em;
}

header, footer, nav, section
{
    display: block;
}

/* HEADINGS   
----------------------------------------------------------*/
h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6
{
    font-size: 1.5em;
    color: #000;
}

.headerTitle
{
    font-size: 2.5em;
    padding-bottom: 0;
    margin-bottom: 0;
    color: #FFCC66;
    text-align: left;
    width: 100%;
    padding-left: 10px;
}

h2
{
    padding: 0 0 10px 0;
}

h3
{
    font-size: 1.2em;
}

h4
{
    font-size: 1.1em;
}

h5, h6
{
    font-size: 1em;
}

/* PRIMARY LAYOUT ELEMENTS   
----------------------------------------------------------*/

/* you can specify a greater or lesser percentage for the 
page width. Or, you can specify an exact pixel width. */
.page
{
    min-width: 800px;
    margin-left: auto;
    margin-right: auto;
    padding: 10px 10px 10px 10px;
}

header, #header
{
    position: relative;
    margin-bottom: 4px;
    margin-top: 0px;
    color: #000;
    padding: 2px 8px 0px 8px;
    background-color: #0078ae;
    border-radius: 4px 4px 4px 4px;
    -webkit-border-radius: 4px 0 0 0;
    -moz-border-radius: 4px 0 0 0;
}

#main
{
    min-height: 600px;
    height: auto;
    padding: 4px 4px 4px 4px;
    background-color: #e8eef4;
    border-radius: 4px 4px 0px 0px;
    -webkit-border-radius: 4px 4px 0 0;
    -moz-border-radius: 4px 4px 0 0;
}

footer, #footer
{
    background-color: #0078ae;
    color: #FFCC66;
    height: 20px;
    text-align: center;
    vertical-align: bottom;
    padding: 8px 0 4px 0;
    line-height: normal;
    margin: 4px 0px 0 0;
    font-size: .9em;
    font-weight: bold;
    border-radius: 0 0 4px 4px;
    -webkit-border-radius: 0 0 4px 4px;
    -moz-border-radius: 0 0 4px 4px;
}


/* TAB MENU   
----------------------------------------------------------*/
ul#menu
{
    border-bottom: 1px #0078ae solid;
    padding: 0 0 2px 0px;
    position: relative;
    margin: 0;
    text-align: left;
}

ul#menu li
{
    display: inline;
    list-style: none;
}

ul#menu li#greeting
{
    padding: 10px 20px;
    font-weight: bold;
    text-decoration: none;
    line-height: 2.8em;
    color: #fff;
}

ul#menu li a
{
    padding: 10px 20px;
    font-weight: bold;
    text-decoration: none;
    line-height: 2.8em;
    background-color: #e8eef4;
    color: #034af3;
    border-radius: 4px 4px 0 0;
    -webkit-border-radius: 4px 4px 0 0;
    -moz-border-radius: 4px 4px 0 0;
}

ul#menu li a:hover
{
    background-color: #fff;
    text-decoration: none;
}

ul#menu li a:active
{
    background-color: #a6e2a6;
    text-decoration: none;
}

ul#menu li.selected a
{
    background-color: #fff;
    color: #000;
}

/* FORM LAYOUT ELEMENTS   
----------------------------------------------------------*/

fieldset
{
    border: 1px solid #ddd;
    padding: 0 1.4em 1.4em 1.4em;
    margin: 0 0 1.5em 0;
}

legend
{
    font-size: 1.2em;
    font-weight: bold;
}

textarea
{
    min-height: 75px;
}

input[type="text"], input[type="password"]
{
    border: 1px solid #ccc;
    padding: 2px;
    font-size: 1.2em;
    color: #444;
    width: 200px;
}

select
{
    border: 1px solid #ccc;
    padding: 2px;
    font-size: 1.2em;
    color: #444;
}

/* MISC  
----------------------------------------------------------*/
.clear
{
    clear: both;
}

.error
{
    color: Red;
}

nav, #menucontainer
{
    margin-top: 0px;
    width: 100%;
}

#logindisplay
{
    font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
    font-size: 14px;
    display: block;
    text-align: right;
    margin: 0px;
    color: #FFCC66;
}

#logindisplay a:link
{
    color: #FFCC66;
    text-decoration: underline;
}

#logindisplay a:visited
{
    color: #FFCC66;
    text-decoration: underline;
}

#logindisplay a:hover
{
    color: #fff;
    text-decoration: none;
}

div#_quickSearch
{
    display: block;
    text-align: right;
    font-size: 1.2em;
    color: #FFCC66;
}

.currentCulture
{
    font-size: 14px;
    display: block;
    text-align: right;
    color: Black;
    width: 100px;
}

.quickSearch
{
    border: none;
    padding: 0;
    margin: 0;
    vertical-align: top;
}

img#_leftImage
{
    height: 80px;
}

/* Styles for validation helpers
-----------------------------------------------------------*/
.field-validation-error
{
    color: #ff0000;
}

.field-validation-valid
{
    display: none;
}

.input-validation-error
{
    border: 1px solid #ff0000;
    background-color: #ffeeee;
}

.validation-summary-errors
{
    font-weight: bold;
    color: #ff0000;
}

.validation-summary-valid
{
    display: none;
}

/* Styles for editor and display helpers
----------------------------------------------------------*/
.display-label, .editor-label
{
    margin: 1em 0 0 0;
}

.display-field, .editor-field
{
    margin: 0.5em 0 0 0;
}

.text-box
{
    width: 30em;
}

.text-box.multi-line
{
    height: 6.5em;
}

.tri-state
{
    width: 6em;
}

.submitButton
{
    height: 26px;
    font-size: 14px;
    margin-right: 4px;
}

.actionFinalized
{
    color: #CC9900;
}

.addressDropDown
{
    height: 26px;
    width: 206px;
}

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