This is the first part in a three part series on building a professional website from scratch. This part will go over the design process, so we will be making a PhotoShop mock-up of our website. In the next step I will go over marking-up a template with HTML and CSS, and then we’ll complete the series with converting the template into an ASP.NET Master Page. To complete this Tutorial in its entirety, you’ll need:

• PhotoShop (the version doesn’t matter much, as we’re not doing anything overly complicated or tool-specific)
• Visual Studio (I’m using 2008, but you should be able to use 2005 as you just need support for Master Pages)