ASP Code Problems

[Muscovy Level X]

I've been trying a few ASP code experiments lately, and I've noticed a recurring problem; nothing ever shows up! Here's a sipmle exaple of something I tried.

<%
dim numvisits
response.cookies("NumVisits").Expires=date+365
numvisits=request.cookies("NumVisits")

if numvisits="" then
response.cookies("NumVisits")=1
response.write("Welcome! This is the first time you are visiting this Web page.")
else
response.cookies("NumVisits")=numvisits+1
response.write("You have visited this ")
response.write("Web page " & numvisits)
if numvisits=1 then
response.write " time before!"
else
response.write " times before!"
end if
end if
%>



Any ideas?