Re: web page design and coding

Yep I agree - I didn't provide that final detail.  We both read the same books anyway!

Your approach (as demonstrated by the two replies above) could be either technical buisiness driven or visual design driven.  My work is business technical, so the style comes last, and often follows existing corporate standards for colours, layout, etc.  It's just as correct to start with the look and feel, and then go on to build in the technical side.

As indicated, using separate HTML (content) and CSS (style) is the best current way of consisistently and quickly developing good web sites that work on the widest range of browsers (you might consider testing on IE7 too [currently in BETA] as this is out next year).

You develop content within Visual Studio and build the output web site.  Then create either a project in your styling tool (Dreamweaver) and use the exiting ASPX/HTML files as the project content, or simply edit the CSS manually, which you will probably be doing for tweaks anyway.  Editing CSS in VS project files does reflect changes back to the ASPX page, although it gives only a general idea of how it will work in a broswer

Stephen