want to create a niche videosite.

[cleverlyslick]

Hello folks!

 

I had a dream about a videosite and now I can't get it out of my head.  I would like to create  it but don't know how to get started 

 

can anyone give me advice on where to start? I'm still learning php and I am newb but I wouldn't publish the videosite for like 6 month to a year from now as I want to play around with coding first and see what results I get. I just want to get pointed in the right direction on where to start for a video site.

 

here's a definite layout of how I want the site to look like.

 

1) I want 3 categorized sections in the homepage

 

2) I want thumbnail previews of the featured videos for each category on the homepage (I don't know how to make thumbnail layout either).

 

3) The thumbnails are going to be 5  5 thumbnails horizontally and 2 vertically

example:  category1:    thumb1 thum2  thumb3  thumb4  thumb5

                                  thumb6 thumb7 thumb8 thumb9  thumb10

             

              category2:    Thumb1 thumb2 thumb3 etc. etc. etc.

 

hopefully you get the idea of what I would like in the homepage

 

then when they drill down a certain category it will be thumbnails in 5 thumbs horizontally and 8 rows vertically.

 

I hope it makes sense as i'm really looking for help with this and unfortunately have no money to hire a coder. This is driving me so crazy that i'm going to take php courses in January in the school of visual arts in new york lol. Someone please help. I read php and mysql books, I read the php.net website daily, i'm really trying to learn this language but time is also a factor and as humans we always want results right away. please post or pm me with any help you can give me.

 

Thanks Again everybody.