>>2) some people use frontpage, others say use nothing but pure html. i am looking for opinions on this issue.

>Frontpage is good for static pages. It can create pure HTML. How you base this depends on your service provider. If they are running IIS, then use Active Server Pages on the server and send HTML and JavaScript to the client. ASP can use VB script, but Netscape won't run VB script, so anything that goes to the browser has to be javascript or HTML unless you have a captive audience and can require they use Internet Explorer.

thanks for the info. obviously i have alot to learn.

when you say "frontpage is good for static pages". what do you mean by that? i do have a need to populate some information on a page with some kind of variable data. i was thinking either a foxpro or access table, or text file from a table. can frontpage do this?

what is iis?

thanks brenda