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by keith

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We were having a difficult time with our "webmaster' so I bought Yahoo Sitebuilder, locked myself in the house for seven days and learned what to do and created our new web site. www.DestinationVegas.com
I now want to do another site but Yahoo Sitebuilder does not provide for some of the features I want in the site.
1. Does not require HTML knowledge
2. Allows for membership
3. Indicates when memebers are on line or not and allows members to chat in real time.
4. Allows members to download photos or video into their accounts.
5. Can sell advertising if desired and keep track of hhits.

Basically, I want to create a "twist" to the current "single" or "dating" sites and need my site to do everything these other sites can.

Can anyone put me in the right direction ? I have a basic (remedial) understanding of computer technologies, hardwares and softwares; so if you could please explain this to me as you would a younger child it may be more effective and not a complete waste of time. Thank You in advance.

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by impulse

Your solution would be a Content Management System. Google around for Mambo Open Source, PHP-Nuke ect.

These systems generally have a controll panel you use (on the web) to update the content. No html knowledge is really required..

These CMS systems more-often-then-not are already equiped to handle "users" with creating login-id's ect ect.

by rsmmail04-tech1

a lot more. Check out http://www.phpnuke.org/(developer) and www.nukecops.org(users).

I could not even begin to cover all that PHP-Nuke has to offer, so all I can say is check it out. If your on a shared hosting service that supports MySql and PHP, chances are it has a PHP-Nuke auto-installer built in to your service. Otherwise it's pretty easy to manually install.

I had never used PHP or MySql and within a few hours I had a pretty good website up and running. Check out http://sdnet.techarium.com. You'll need to create a membership to use any of the "fun" features.

by quaribc

they would require much further studying of web development. try to see if you can get your hands on dreamweaver mx or the whole studio mx suite from macromedia.

very, very easy to use and it's much more versatlie than yahoo! sitebuilder.

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