I am just starting out with asp.net and was wondering if I was heading in the right direction. Do I need to use eventhandlers to make a dropdownlist jump to another page that I have? Because all the pages are different for each item in the list.

You could do it the way you suggested, it would work, however it would require the user to first post back to the page, then to the new page.

    Private Sub DropDownList1(. . .) Handles DropDownList1.SelectionChanged

        Select Case DropDownList1.SelectedIndex
            Case 0
                Response.Redirect("PageOne.aspx")
            Case 1
                Response.Redirect("PageTwo.aspx")
                .
                .
                .
        End Select

    End Sub

There is another way to do it by adding an "OnChange" parameter to the HTML <asp:DropDownList> tag and setting AutoPostBack to false.

I haven't tested it but something like:

<asp:DropDownList id="ddl1" runat=Server OnChange="javascript:location.href='/pages/' + ddl1.value + '.aspx';">
. . .
</asp:DropDownList>