First picture of Scoilnet !

Scoilnet, the Irish portal for education,is now soon entering debugging and test mode, but I am very proud to release a first picture of one page, the one for the primary kids.

I developped this site entirely in VB.Net, with SQL 2000 in the back-end.
I can't say it was an easy task every day, but it really worth it.

Thanks to Scott Guthrie and others guys behind ASP.Net, it's such an amazing experience to work with these tools !
I am still wonder how I would achieved so much in ASP in so short time (3 months)
On the picture, in the Coloured Corners section the letter of the week is generated by the server, using GDI+. Very fast.

The titles of the boxes will be also in Comic-Sans to give a 'kid' aspect for the page.

Many things on the page come from the database, the subjects table is done using a Datareader.

The Search box use the the Full Text function in SQL. The Quiz box has not a single HTML line of code.
The dropdown menus are done with Coalesys menu component(no shares in this company ;-))

All boxes are indeed User Controls. It's so cool to use them that yesterday I showed how to change their positions, their colors, and they were also impressed.
The Logo is also an Imagecontrol button, to let me change it in function of the page.

So with .Net I was able to generate a site that look like a 100 pages using only a dozen of pages !