I have some advice on doing it 'on the cheap':

Don't do it in ASP, do it in PHP. It's free (open source). Can't get cheaper than that eh?

Also you are not limited to IIS servers, which means you have a wider choice of hosting options and it may be more secure.

Try http://www.php.net for a starting point and if you want tutorials take a look at http://www.phphelp.com

BTW, if you take a look at the URL of this page, you'll see that even VB-Worldis written in PHP I'm writing stuff in ASP at the moment, so I guess I'm a bit hypocritical, but I'll be converting it all to PHP as soon as I get it working properly in ASP, since I haven't actually learnt PHP yet.