Hello, thank you for taking the time to read my post.

 I have a large extended family and about 1200 pictures from a recent vacation i took that I wish to share with the world.

 I have spent a month writing my accounts for the places i visited and getting the gps locations through google maps and whatnot. This website will contain about 150 pages of content which would be made by passing a url w/ a ?articleid=1 that is also rewritten to something the search engines like more using the articles I have read from a link from a previous page or a sequence of dropdown lists.

My problem is that my dataset will return the records and the linked table that has the url for the pictures through visual studio. I can test the dataset get and fill by it and it works fine and I can take the output from this dataset and display it in a gridview. The problem is that I want to set it up like a blog where I have placeholders for content using labels with some ascx includes for my google maps and the gridview will simply not work for what I need since I have all the dynamic content.  I don't necessarily need nor want the data to be updated except through an admin login protected page. This would strictly be read only for visitors for obvious reasons.   I have read about the gmap control by wcpierce and i will tackle that next once I get the sql ->aspx conversion.

I understand that the dataset is only the start but most of the tutorials have been based on using a web control that will bind easily to a dataset. 

Well if anyone would be kind as to explain the best way to take a row in my database and display it how I want using placeholders on the aspx page through a codebehind preferrably on a standard web form that would be fantastic. I spent about 8 hours trying to figure out where to start with it today with an hour each way on my commute for the past week.

I am using visual basic for a programming language and visual studio.

 Scott Conrad