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Well I swear... I didn't change that post change to dark theme if you like to make sure (<- Joke!)

All those things are very relevant and some times it can be time consuming and just right out frustrating to tie all those things together. It takes years of practice and a great amount of skill to pull off a great website. I have turned to website templates. They are cheap and with the skills that you already know you can just customize it however you want.

Just thought I would throw that out there. Very Happy

Thanks for your detailed replies.

I would also go with the php as it is the most used language for that type of project. If you host with godaddy they setup drupal for you to use, it will have done most of the php coding for you already imo. You can also get the package from http://drupal.org/.

I have some friends on the same type of projects and the best advice I could give you is do it in steps and then publish. One of my friends is doing it in a group and does not have control over how they are doing it and the one that does is looking for perfection before going live. The project started five year ago and is nowhere near being complete to his standards and soon a competitor will have the same idea and be successful ahead of him.

Hope this helps