Newbie needs some help.

After reading ASP.NET for Dummies and some practicing with the things I'd learned, I thought the time was come to make a project on my own using the VB language.
My goal was, and still is, to create a webstore. Not an higly complex one, nor a simple one.
So a middle-of-the-road webstore it should be. Coming to the point now:
I've created a database with the needed fields in it. Then wrote a page which, via buttons, shows the information asked in a datagrid where one column has hyperlinks directing to a detail-page. That page shows the specific article with its details and some things to be filled in by the user (dropdownlist, textbox, etc...) as a datalist.
So far so good, and that's where it ends too, because I don't know how to proceed. What I'd like to have is a button in the deatil-page which will be able to hold the selected and filled in info and will be stored in some kind of basket/shoppingcart (lets say: basket.aspx or something like that). Finally I'd like to have a page where all the items ordered by the user show up and where the user would be able to order the things he choose.
I know this can be done by using controls given in the controlgallery, but for I am a newbie I'd like to try to do it on my, so that I understand what I'm doing and what the code is doing.

Then I've got a second question: is it a good decision to buy the book ASP.NET Unleahed?

Any help would be appreciated
Thanks in advance

PosNRG.Chapter 31 ofASP.NET Unleashed walks you through creating an Online Store, complete with a shopping cart.

I cannot say enough good things about this book. (And it is often recommended on this forum.)

So, if you buy it, you will find the answer to your question, and learn more in doing so than we could ever teach you in a forum.
Thank you for your time and your quick response SomeNewKid2.
Buying the book is the first thing I'll do.

Regards,
PosNRG