Starting a basic webpage - Looking for tips/help

Hey guys

I recently joined this forum, so I'll say a lil' about my programming experience here - personal introduction will have to wait a little
* 1 year of working experience in Microsoft Office, VBA and Office templates
* 1 year of working experience with VB.net and 2 Microsoft certifications in .NET 3.5
* Spare time experience with both prior to this year

I have a fair understanding of several other subjects, but my problem is.. WEB development - I have close to no experience with it.
I've had a few lessons on basic HTML and CSS, but I've forgotten most of how it works together. I have no trouble finding structure in each technology separately - I just need to get it all working at a higher level.
Structuring everything in tables is an easy approach that I can follow, but I'd like to follow a somewhat advanced approach instead. I don't have the spare time to get a solid understanding, so I'd like the "fast" way

To sum it all up, I'm looking to create a basic website with a decent layout and mouse-over elements. I'll figure out the content - what I need to know is how to tailor the menu and navigation system from scratch.
I'd prefer using ASP.NET as I'm comfortable with Visual Studio.

So these are my questions:
* Can you give any tips to get kickstarted?
* Can you create the skeleton for me (a Visual Studio project, for example)? I can't pay for your help, but I can offer help in the areas I've worked with.

Thanks for your time.

 

google "son of suckerfish" (dropdown menu, dropover menu)
google "nifty corners" (css tableless layouts)

 

There are many free templates, and tutorials for a drop down menu / website layout.

My suggestion to you is to get some of these; and then (using online tutorials, or help from a friend / someone willing to help [who knows what they are doing]), add on to and change these up.

I mean, I could tell you that a drop down menu is really just a hidden div, and set an event to onhover with a piece of JavaScript code to show the hidden div, but without background knowledge that would not make a whole lot of sense.

But try looking for some free templates (google CSS Based Web Templates ) and then play with those!

 

I apologize that I didn't tend to your replies until now.

Thanks for the suggestions on templates. I think I might look into a free CMS as well ;-)

 

If you're going to study how it works, then don't touch CMS
Start with w3schools or something like that. Also, using templates is a good idea, just hit in google
"FREE CSS TEMPLATES" You will be pleased.