Stick with master pages! It will make your life a whole lot easier. I think it is one of the best things introduced in .Net 2.0.
My current host says that their support masterpages but when I do upload files from visual studio that includes the masterpages, it has problems recognizing it. I contacted them and they said they fixed it and upgraded the ASP version but the problem still persist. Does anyone know a good host without surprises? One that is compatible with direct file upload from the Visual Studio without funny errors?
What is the error you get? Any host that supports .NET 2.0 support master pages.
Use Master pages, your life will be a whole lot easier (i personally try to avoid nested master pages).
Use www.asp.net, view video tutorials – each is like 10 to 20 minutes long.
Take some MS virtual labs and you’ll see for yourself all that you can do with master pages.
Get yourself a good book, after master pages, you need to know how best to use different controls to your advantage, client side javascript with server side controls etc.
Check this thread http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?t=457435 for how you can put your keywords and description etc “meta tags” on the content pages.
Ask questions if you don’t understand any thing.
master pages are the way to go
I use them with all my sites and they are very easy to use and convenient
as far as resources most wrox .net books are very good!