ASP ’newbie’ - How-to assistance needed

My only experience has been to make static pages.  I am a total newbie to all this ASP stuff!  Basically, I'm just using the pages that ProductCart has made and am running the entire site via the "/pc" folder.

However, I want to make a few extra pages OUTSIDE the ProductCart folder.  ProductCart has a function to create a static HTML page of the Store Map (StoreMap.html) which puts in the header, left-side links, and footer.

What I want to do is make the static page dynamically generated so that it will display the current code of the header.asp & footer.asp pages, as well as the sidebar links.  That way, when I make changes to the header & footer .asp pages, all pages will be changed the next time a browser requests the page.

Thing is, I want to put these dynamically generated, non-Store pages in other subfolders and/or root.  I tried to copy the MainIndex.asp page and monkey with the code - had disasterous results!  Not being a programmer, I don't fully grasp how ASP works or how to build pages with the code.

Help would be most appreciated!

MarkCoyle wrote: Version 3 I think will sort this for you.

Well, unfortunately, using ver 3 is NOT an option.  I've got v 2.76 to work with and that's ALL I'll have, probably for a long time.

Anyone out there got a suggestion on what to do in version 2.76?

There are quite a bit of changes that need to be made to support the header.asp and footer.asp in folders other than the pc folder. It would be easiest if you could keep your content pages in the pc folder.

If you definately want to move the new pages to other folder(s), you'll ned to modify the header.asp and footer.asp files to use full paths to all files and images so they are referenced correctly, i.e. productcart/pc/filename.asp or productcart/pc/images/pic.jpg based on the location of the files you are creating.

Be careful not to use http:// for image location URLs since that will cause problems when you display the header/footer on checkout pages that use SSL. Users will get a message about some items not being secure.