Let me try helping you :)

>I am new to designing and developing websites with database connections.
>What I would like to do is this:
Welcome to the community

>1. Create a sign-up form where the information is emailed to the
>Webmaster
>2. Have the Webmaster decide membership and have them manually enter new
>members into an access database.
>3. Have the login page on the website that uses the database to decide
whether they can gain access to the site.
What you want is quite easy, even for a beginner. Anyway, do you know what
is the "idea" of ASP, as it builds HTML code dynamically?
I recommend you just start by "inserting" records (users) and "listing"
them, before thinking of "gaining" rights. I can help you with code, but you
should completely get how ASP works before creating ASP pages. Of course you
can learn by creating. Anyway, don?t be shy about starting by very simple
code.

>What programming languages should I focus on?  ASP or JSP?  Or is there
>something completely different I should be looking into?  I have Visual
>Studio .NET, should I be using this program?  I just need to know where
>the best place is to start
Well, I?m and ASP fan, and that?s the focus of this Forum.

Elildo