Do not skip the text in chapter 2 by jumping right to the labs. The material is extremely important and I encourage you to experiment with it until you feel comfortable with VS tools. Just the HTML editing can be extremely useful for any HTML work even outside of the VS.
In this chapter you learn the basic mechanics of web site design with various types of files, folders, and views. The rest of the first half of the semester you will see how easy will be adding of some very good and powerful controls to the site with a couple of clicks and 5-second tweaking. They will make your site look professional as well as allowing you to modify it quickly on user's whimsy. This is Rapid Application Development in the flesh. And the basis is in the use of a good integrated development environment (IDE) such as Visual Studio and a Framework (.NET) which gives you a lot of free code hidden behind each control and .NET element that offer a very rich set of attributes, behaviors, and other code features.
But you need to understand all words and sentences in the book since none of them is just for the good mood. Every skipped sentence is missing knowledge of something that will inevitably haunt you later.
A good idea might be to re-read the chapter and experiment more on it. If you will not be comfortable with the material - you will be spending much more time/efforts in the coming weeks.
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