Let me say this - the people behind MySQL are great when it comes to building the server engine - however when it comes to admin GUI they are not that good.
I have poublished some horror stories about the MySQL GUI and my advice is - go for SQLYog.
Therefore I will in my articles here use SQLYog.
Lets start by creating a database. I will call it Sakila (since we will later need such a database)
Now we rightclick on the database and Create Table:
And we have the table created:
