New to ASP - new to web design

hi everybody,

i know a little bit of web design,

i know this may be a stupid question, but is it important to know web design before learning ASP ?

and what is ASP about ? i heard you can create a shopping cart for a merchant website with ASP, is this correct ?

thanks very much,

larry

If by "web design" you mean making things that look nice, then no. If you mean some knowledge of (x)HTML and probably CSS, then I would say yes.

ASP allows you to have dynamic web pages - pages that do something. HTML is static. If you want your pages to respond to a user then the server needs to do some processing... what did the user enter, was it a number, was it a string of letters. If it was a number then what number. If that number was 7 then display the phrase "7 is my lucky number" - that sort of thing!

You can create shopping carts, but you might want to use a ready built one instead.