I am setting up a directory that requires a membership, thus the "pages" folder is protected with .htaccess.

I have also passworded the "admin" folder with .htaccess, so I can prevent others from accessing the administration features and messing it up.

The sales page, however, will not be passworded, but I want to be able to display the number of links in the directory, or for that matter, in each category, on that page, and have it update automatically as the links are added or deleted. [to assist in the marketing]

I think I have to access the links.css file from the unprotected folder, but when I tried to put the links.css file outside the protected area, but couldn't get it to update, nor could I get any information to be displayed on the unprotected webpage. Also, the "home.html" seems to require different coding than the other templates.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance!