Best way to layout page with text and ASP controls

[SteveInBeloit]

I am curious on what it is thought the best way to layout the web page with the text and images mixed with Asp .Net controls?

Set everything to absolute positioning and arrange at will?
Don't move anything on the designer, but keep switching to Source and hand coding the HTML?
If you have some text, just code the <p> or <div> and type it in in source, or put on an asp table and fill it?

Just wanting to make sure I start down the right path.

Steve

 

[Paszt]

CSS is generally considered the best solution. It shouldn't matter (too much) if the control is an ASP.NET control or not as everything is rendered as HTML in the end. Each .NET control will have a CssClass property to assign a CSS class to the control. There is also the ASP.NET 2.0 CSS Friendly Control Adapters to force all controls to emit CSS friendly markup.