I will urge u to install ActiveState-perl and instead of using VB/ASP/IIS use PerlScript/ASP/IIS .... later when u understand it is not a good practice to use IIS it would be easy to u to switch to Apache/mod_perl/Apache::ASP :")

Seriously Apache::ASP is much more feature rich than MS/ASP, it is another proof how module-of-one-man (namely Joshua Chamas) can beat (create better product) than a whole bunch of MS-programmers&managers.

I have been using all VB/ASP, JS/ASP, PerlScript/ASP, Apache::ASP and the later beat them all.

As many other already pointed u about module-view-controller approach. Apache::ASP give u simple way to achieve similar separation of logic with the help of xmlsubs (which is not available in MS/ASP).... later if u feel more advanced u can swich to more powerfull technologies i.e. Template::Tookit.

Ooops did i forgot to mention that Apache::ASP have a nice interface for handling file-uploads(trought CGI, transparent to u).

Have I also mentioned that u could expect much better support and good support of the creator itself and the community...etc...etc..

ASP is not a bad languge for doing quick and dirty scripts and the good thing about using it trought Perl is that whenever your site grows or designers get involved u can switch to any of the numerous Template systems available for Perl. (For comparison of the template-systems search on www.perl.com, I think, there is very good article written by Perrin Harkins)


... ok enought for now, not that there is not more things to be said :")