Designing with layouts

One thing that you may have noticed is that we have added a lot of functionality to our application without adding any explicit navigation to access this functionality. Our home page has not yet changed from the default application we built. We still have the same navigation items as we did when we first created our new application. We need to change our basic navigation to better reflect the underlying functionality present in the application.

Thus far, we have not fully covered how our application is using all of the view files responsible for displaying the content. We know that our view files are responsible for our data display and housing the HTML sent back for each page request. When we create new controller actions, we also often create new views to handle the display of the returned content from these action methods. Most of these views are very specific to the action methods they support and not used across multiple pages. However, there are some things, like...