>if i will be using frontpage 2000 as my frontend, how will i use VFP DB as my backend?how will i connect the 2?

I don't use FP but AFAIK whatit does to create HTM,ASP pages. In ASP created set your connection string to VFP db. ie :

set oConn = createobject("ADODB.connection")
oConn.Connstring = "Provider=VFPOLEDB.1;Data source=c:\myPath\myDatabase.dbc"

Cetin