Can ASP be a webpage?

Hi,
I had two questions about ASP pages.

1)
Can I use an ASP page as an actual page on my website.( with graphics and everything). Or is ASP just a page which helps me put some codes in my pages. If it is like that, do I have to make a connection between the html page and the asp page that i want to use in it. (If it is then how ?)

2) I named my ASP page index.asp and put it on my server as the first page of my site. But when i typed my web address in the browser, my browser gave me a page that said you do not have permission to access the page. What is going on?

I think there is a relation between my first question and the second!!!!

If you have experience with ASP and vbscript please help me out.
Thank you very very much.
I Hope you can help. :)

1. ASP page is a "WEB PAGE". It could be just VBScript code on it, or it could be a mix of regular HTML code, VBScript , and JavaScript on the same page.

2. What server are you running? ASP (Active Server Pages) page is a Microsoft technology and could be run from IIS (Microsoft Internet Information Services) wich is part of Win NT, 2000, 2000 Sever.
index.asp should work just fine if you have an IIS, and your server configured to run a script.

For #2, I've had that problem too... I forget how I fixed it but I think you need to go under your website properties to the directory security tab. Then under authentication control bring the dialog up... make sure anymous access is enabled and try turning of intergrated windows authentication.

You need to set the default page for the web index.html, or index.asp, or whichever. You can do this through the IIS MMC.