>>>I have all of about 5 minutes of experience with web pages, so bear with me.
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>>>When placing objects on a web form, why can't I move things around like I can on a WinForm? is this a setting somewhere?
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>>You can use Absolute Positioning and try to do that, although that is considered a very bad move in most circles. See http://aspnetresources.com/blog/forget_absolute_positioning_in_vs2008.aspx
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>>Other than that, you can position using CSS or Tables.
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>>Tables are easy but they tend not to position really cleanly.
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>>CSS (using DIVs with FLOAT attributes) can lay out a pretty nice page, but it requires a lot of coding to get everything properly set in DIVs and the DIVs laid out the way you want them.
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>>Basically, it ain't Windows anymore. It is much more effort to lay screens out nicely. This is called progress (not by me).
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>Ok, so I guess I have to bite off CSS sometime. Can you point me in the right direction?

I have several books on CSS but the best one I have found and is readily available is this one:
CSS The Missing manual
O'Reilly book written by David Sawyer McFarland

Absolutely worth doing it this way and skipping the whole tables thing. I can show you examples of sites done both ways.
Tim