Hi

I am using VS2008 and trying to get my head around all the info/tech out there. I need to construct a banner to my site which will be the same for all the pages, on the top section along with the navigation menu.

I used EW2 and was able to create a Dynamic Web Template, but I saw a vedio on how to use master pages, and another one on how to use Web User Control, all will do the same thing "I think".

when do I use one over the other?

thanks

I suggest that you use MasterPages and UserControls to create a basic standard layout of your application. That is a very flexible way of managing your application layouts. You can create user controls for header, footer, side bar etc, and place them on your master page along with a content place holder control where your content pages can fit in. For more information on master pages, do search google, there are a lot of videos and sample applications on this.

HTH,

Vivek