i am completely new to this

[raziel21]

as i said in the thread name i am a complete noob at site developement. i wanted to find out if any one can help me create a site with a login. and if people log in to the site they could create their own mini page on that site where they can use the site to store information or put their own files in. i know this may be confusing for you when you read this because im confused writing this, i just have an idea for a site and i have little well lets just say no money to support this.

i know that angel fire lets people set up free sites i just want to know if i will be able to create my type of site with it and if yes please tell me how because i know nothing in coding and i dont know html.

[replica]

uh oh.

so you say your completely new? no html? wow.

k, if you're just looking for something to host your friends' web pages then there's a gazillion sites out there that will do this for the smallest amount of advertising intrustion. But if you're determined to learn all the ins and outs of scripting, databasing, hosting, maintaining and all that jazz then you've got a substantial lot of reading to do.

My opinion? I suggest the trustworthy `LAMP` approach. It's free and used by the majority of all thingii on these fair interwebs.

Creating, from scratch, something to the affect of what you're talking about will take several disciplines. And you've got your work cut out for you.

I'd start with the basics from webmonkey (http://www.webmonkey.com/). Who really has a lot more then the basics. These foruns are invaluable, of course. Then there's the matter of hosting. Are you setting up a server yourself or do you have an account with one of 'em hosting co's? Setting up an old computer (or new, depending on your cash flow) with some Linux/Apache/PHP is a spectacular learning experience. Being that you either learn or it doesn't work. Or you try to dual boot XP with suse and find out that XP will rewrite the boot loader. And that sucked. Thank gord for the rescue disks. And now I'm rambling. sorry.

In short, you can probably learn enough to get thing rolling in no time. Buy some books, read some articles, and spend a couple of late nights trying to figure out why in gord's name the update query isn't working properly. That, or take some schooling. But the internets are free if you're willing =)

As a side note, if you know enough to set up a web app then I'd check sourceforge for some multi-user content management system. Might be what you're looking for. I don't know and I'm half snapped.

[replica]

-BURLAP-

If you decide to take the initiative and get some learnin' then I cheers you on all of your future headaches and fustrations.

...and here's some metal horns. \m/ :mad: \m/

[raziel21]

omg i read what you wrote and aleady im confused. i know thats alot for me to deal with. i mean i have a friend that makes websites and when i explained to him what i wanted to do he turned around and left with a headache. ill read guides and everything i just want to set up a little not as much of a forum but more of a file directory i guess. just random links with information in them sort of like the yahoo thing; however, just some of the links i want to be password blocked so that only a few close people could see it. something like an email for example only the people with the proper password can view it.

[replica]

easiest answer then is to use a forum with user levels that allow password protected areas. vBulletin (http://www.vbulletin.com/) can do this and I'm certain phpBB (http://www.phpbb.com/) can too, In fact, most decent hosts out there will have an extremely easy to set up forum, ready for you to add to a site. I like siteground (http://www.siteground.com/) for the moment.

Either go with something easy to set-up and use a-like-a the phoBB route or maybe do a blog thing (I like b2evolution (http://b2evolution.net/)) which you could set them all up with seperate weblogs. They can add whatever they want and the installation doesn't really require any knowledge of scripting. But the password protection thing wouldn't be there. for that I'd go with the forum.

What's you goal out of this anyways?

Not to pry, but you know... peanut arms. :)

[ray326]

http://opensourcecms.com

[raziel21]

thx for helping out guys im going to give it a try with a friend of mine