Website creation process

For the past few days, I have been working on developing my skills using Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2005. We have been building our own websites based on the 'Northwind Traders' sample database that has been provided as an example for our coursework. So far, we're learning the basic skills such as using tables as page template designs, learning how to add images, and learning how to link all the pages together. So far, my homepage looks like this:

It has a basic layout; it has an icon and a title along the top, a set of links down the left hand side, and a space in the middle to add text. I used this layout for all my other pages, for example this is my 'Products' page:

As you can see, the both pages have the exact same layout. I just copied and pasted the table into every page, and it saved a lot of time.

Linking the pages together was pretty easy. I simply created buttons along the side and added the names of the different pages onto the buttons. To add a hyperlink, you simply highlight the text and click on the small icon of a world along the toolbar, shown below.

Once that icon is clicked, a new box appears asking you which page you want the button to link to, and you simply select the page from the list and click 'Save', and the hyperlink is added. I did this for all the buttons on all my pages, so now you can get to any page from any page, for example if i was on the Customers page online i could get to the Orders page by simply clicking on the Orders link.

That's all I have done for my website atm, but in our next class we will be uploading the Northwind database onto the site, so that the site can be used as an online database.