Personal Portfolio Web site with ASP.NET Starter kit

How would you like to have an online portfolio in 30minutes and demonstrate your web skills with a dynamic data-driven web site.

Visual Web Developer (VWD) is a tool for developing dynamic, data-driven web sites, in a simple and elegant manner, based on ASP.NET 2.0.  You can use all of the newer web technologies such as XHTML, XML, CSS, ASP.NET 2.0, .NET 2.0 C#, VB, and SQL Server 2005.

7 simple steps to a dynamic website

1. Install and register “Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition”, SP1 and Vista Update from http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/downloads/default.aspx

2. Install and register SQL Server 2005 Express edition from http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/sql/default.aspx

3. Download the Personal Website Starter Kit from http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/vwd/starterkit/

4. Launch Visual Web Developer, File/New Website and choose “Personal Web Site Starter Kit”

5. Personalize the content and set the security access permissions by adding members

6. Call to get a free hosting account

7. Upload the Visual Web Developer 2005 Express “Personal Web Site Starter Kit” files to the hosting service using your account

• ASP.NET 2.0 training: Explore Web Development with  ASP.NET 2.0, Virtual labs   http://www.microsoft.com/events/series/msdnwebdev.aspx