@jpmoriartyMar 28.2003 — #asp is a server side language that will run on a web server. basically what it does is generate HTML pages based on the code that is contained in the ASP code - that means that you can tailor what HTML is generated dependent on a set of conditions (be they if statements, loops, databases, whatever you can code basically!). So for example if you go to a web page and somewhere on it it says "good morning", the likelyhood is that's a dynamic page (usually either PHP or ASP) which looks at the time, and if it's before noon will say "good morning" but if it's after noon say "good afternoon".
If you havent used HTML before i would hold off on using ASP - given as ASP generates HTML it's going to be tricky learning ASP when you dont know / understand what it's going to be creating! SPend a bit of time with HTML getting to know the basics then investiage server side languages (and if you dont have Microsoft IIS it may be an idea to consider the free solution provided by [url=www.apache.org]apache[/url], [url=www.php.net]php[/url] and [url=www.mysql.com]MySQL[/url] - i found PHP much easier to understand than ASP).
But whihc is better for writing articles? I'm not entirely sure - neither are "word processors" if that's what you're asking. If you're doing an article web site though, then i would think HTML would be fine to start with, unless you're doing 10 or more articles a week - most of the work is going to go into writing the article, and i would suggest that a dynamic solution is only preferable when that switches to the majority of the work going into creating the web pages.