Hi, thanks for reading this at least....
I think i need to give a bit of background....I knew nothing about web design a year ago, i didn't even know what html stood for!
I wrote my site in html about six months ago. It was very basic as html and css are the only codes i recently studied from home. i wanted to have a database to collect user input,and have a membership area so was introduced by a friend to dreamweaver - using coldfusion as a testing server & sql express for the database. All was well until i needed to connect coldfusion and sql..who don't like each other!... Days of messing about ended up with me converting to Microsoft visual web developer express edition. I won't bore you with the hassle of messed up installation issues & the ten days of re-configuring my computer................
So i imported my site but I messed up the transfer,by prior deleting my homesite cfm pages so I've had to spend the last three months getting it back to how it was. My current problem.....I had my navigation set up -as i had written it in html- as image tag hyperlinks. I read somewhere that because the images were within asp master pages they should have runat="server" tags, so i put one in the <img> and <a> tags. then i got an error saying that the server control was not well formed.....so being very concientious and wanting to do this as well as possible i thought i'd try using a menu control. I've set it all up using my images. ...they display on the page, but now no clickable regions are clickable! My Index/Homepage has a four question servey, a login control, my menu, an image hyperlink and it did have a mailto link, (but that doesn't work-WHY?)
I read that enable session state can be expensive on memory if you are posting back (which i do? do I ?, with login, survey and menu items) so i removed that from the page directive. still nothing happens when i test the page. I have to right clik and select 'open link' ....but when i double click a checkbox/button/input box a shaded re-sizeable box appears around the item after which the cursor appears within it, or the check or whatever.
I have two database connections on the same page - is this wrong? am i posting the page back too much?
I must stress that the only code i know and understand is html and css, so a complete novice and as yet 'vb virgin'- I REALLY don't want to do the code thing - it's far too scary, i need to get this site up and out there for my business launch in TWO WEEKS and up until all this happened i was practically finished!
If there's anyone out there who can help me-i'll be so grateful.
tc