rucas911

Thanks all for the prompt replies, I will try and look into all your ideas and see what will work best for me. But is it is getting late now and I am tired and not thinking clearly so I will resume my research and learning tomorrow. Thanks again for everyones quick and courteous responses.

Hello, I am pretty inexperienced in terms of web design and programing, especially in terms of PHP and MySQL. However I just accepted the job (because sadly I am the most qualified) of designing my Churches website. And based off the what my church wants, I am pretty sure a PHP site would probably be the best idea overall. But I am not entirely sure where to start. This is what I have so far. We have a web host (Hostmonster.com) which is a linux server with Apache 1.3.39, PHP 5.1.6, and MySQL 5.0.37 with a 100 databases allowed. I believe that is everything I need to set up a PHP site. But like I said, I don't know where to start. I remember I was in a gaming community before and they had a good PHP site setup that allowed a lot of modifying of the site without having to upload files via ftp. It had an admin log in that gave you access to a lot of tools or modules that you turn on or off and move around using the admin tools on the site. I want a site similar to that. I don't know if there are pre-made modules or templates that I can customize with themes or what. Or do I have to code it all myself. If I have to code it all myself is there something similar to frontpage that can write it for me to a certain degree? If anyone can offer some advice to get me started It would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, rucas911