What are your goals? What features do you want? I'd suggest you start by breaking your problem in to small manageable portions and then seeking help on any that still remain a problem. First, write down a list of features that you want, if any are still vague then subdivide it again. Second, prioritise the list - What is important to you? What is a must have? What is a nice to have? Third, see if you've left anything out and add it in. Does it all glue together? How will it respond in the event of a system failing somewhere (for example, a network connection goes down) Now, see if there are any area which you require further assistance on and you can post more specific problems, which more people will help with. "You can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want." --Zig Ziglar Coming soon: The Second EuroCPian Event

I see you have chinese characters? Are they images or text? If they are images you may need to check your path. If they are characters then you the web page may not be referencing the character set. The other possiblilty I see is that the cssClass is commandbutton. It may be worth trying to change the name as that may be a reserved word. Finally take the CssClass Tag out and see if the characters appear. If they do the style is blank or your 'My First ASP.Net site is now up :) http://www.redravenrpg.com

Thank you for your reply. I want to dynamically created different template,not statically. Now i have solved my problem. I define a datalist in html with ItemTemplate be null,then create serval user control for template,then load them with my different option. Thanks!;P

You can try to make a little function that return string and manipulate your data in this function !

I have solved my problem by your hints.Perhaps I didn't express my problem very well. Anyhow,thanks a lot. Following are my code: :-O:-O Sub dgArticles_ItemDataBound(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As DataGridItemEventArgs) Dim item As DataGridItem For Each item In dgArticles.Items 'put your judge condition here 'assumed it return 1 and 2 Select Case CurrentStatus Case "1" item.BackColor = Color.Coral Case "2" item.BackColor = Color.Beige Case Else 'do nothing End Select Next item end sub I hope I can get your help when i am in need on program. May you happy!