Website Ideas Needed!!!!

What is your level of knowledge and how far do you want to go? Are you working in Windows-land or Linux? Do you have any database knowledge? Can you create a page that accesses a database and displays info based on web-page inputs? If so, I like sgt_schults's idea about a local shelter. If you belong to any local group that has (this will sound cold, but) "inventory" that they have responsibility for? You could help them create something.

You can also start small but get ready to gear up bigger. Look at the following "groups -> needs" and you will have a need to create tables.

Shelter -> Pets that need homes
Church or other club -> events that need people to help at.
Swim Team -> members' times per event per date
and so on.

Once you have that set up you can move to putting the data into an XML file with appropriate tags.

Once that works, you can move the data from the XML into a database and create a web service for the database that your web page accesses.

Once that workd you can add parameters to the web page to create selection criteria for the output.

This whole set could easily take you the summer. The goal, as you probably know, is to really learn what you are doing as you are doing it. And by doing it in stages you can learn [b]why[/b] you are doing it a certain way. Knowing "how" is the tech's domain. Knowing "why" is the analyst's domain and where the real value kicks in!

look into Web Services and SOA (service oriented architecture). Get a feel for a starter XML based website and have a front end that can access the XML. That is hot technology right now and perfect if you have the spare cycles to get on it.

Good luck and don't forget to let us know the URL so we can see what you get going!