New MVC project

I just need some guidance. I'm fairly new to MVC3 and to web development in general. I want to create my own project that will involve data storage/access (SQL server db) and user log in functionality. I'm not sure were to start, there seem to be so many ways for this and following tutorials doesn't really give the experience of setting up real life project (or its just my impression). Would you guys suggest starting from an empty MVC3 project, or perhaps use the scaffolding feature an开发者_如何学Pythond build on top of it and use the membership provider built into it ? Some tutorials (by Scott Hanselman) actually explain how to copy and paste the membership feature into a new project. Is this approach suggested ? Any suggestions will help! Thanks!

Here are some tutorials

MVC 3 with razor

ASP.Net website

MVC Music Store

Strongly typed helpers in mvc

Brad Wilson's Blog

MVC Subdomain routing

MVC Partial Views

Some javascript for MVC

MVC Javascript frameworks

JSON and MVC

Form update using JSON in MVC

I'm just starting too, I found this very helpful, especially the videos on the left.

But what I found extremely helpful is the MVC Music Store and the Contoso University site (I recommend to download as PDF; you can see a button to do so at the top).

The NerdDinner tutorial is a great way to start with ASP.NET MVC, although the online version is slightly out of date. However, I can strongly recommend the book that this tutorial (in its updated version) is the first chapter of: Professional ASP.NET MVC 3.