So i read this book called VBScript and ActiveX wizardy. Its fairly old like 1997.
I took a Visual Basic course a while ago in the hopes it would tell me how to incorporate VB into web pages (i didnt know this was obviously VBScript, not regular Visual Basic). Well the class was informative.
So later i find this book and im like "yeah finally ill learn how to use that knowledge in webpages". Mainly i like the thought of manipulating a 'label' like you do in vb but do it on a webpage. Sure enough it tells me in the book you can do this with an activeX label.
Now it spits long gibberish on the page, like 10 lines of parameters and such, to make this label. It says dont worry about that cause you can just download this awesome utility called ActiveX Control Pad to do that for me...but i cant find it at all.

I am thinking that this is out of date and there is a newer way to do it. Is there a new control pad out there or something else (also free) that does it better. At least is there a reference to what activeX controls are out there for webpages (i mean standard with browsers..it mentioned these were IE3 compatible or something..) and parameters for them.

Sorry i seem like such a n00b but any assistance would be appreciated.