>I am fairly new to this whole web thing, but am working on writing a "Virtual Store" and one of my concerns is allowing a user to log in and tracking their movement throughout the site. It seems that Cookies are the way to do this, but I am afraid my knowledge of cookies is *VERY* limited (other than that my wife makes the best). What is a good resource for finding more information about using cookies, creating them, reading them, etc...

You should focus on database for this. You can never know if the cookie will succeed, etc. Also, cookie won't work if the user changes workstation and continue is shopping later. Storing it on the backend if the key.