Okay I figure the title of this post is enough to confuse most so here I go adn I will try to be as clear as I can.
While I may have been making websites for the last 4 years or so more as a hobby than anything else I guess and have been making flash animations and sites for the last couple of years I have no knowledge of php or asp or anything outside html and flash. This in itself has lead to my current predicament because even though I know what I want or at least what the end result is I have no idea where to start or even what to start with.
The best thing for me to do then would be to give you the idea of the end result. I have a site that is very user driven in that the main bulk of its contents is user submitted based. In much the same way as this forum works whereby someone ( me for example ) writes something, clicks the enter/submit button and hey presto suddenly its online and even has its own page that never existed prior to the submission what I am looking for is a way of allowing my user of my site to login to the site, write whatever it is they want to write, submit it and likewise there it appears with its own page etc !!
My problem is two fold. First and foremostly I am usure of what it is I need to accomplish this goal. Is this a PHP thing ?? An ASP thing ?? The problem is I dont know !! This, I guess will be a relatively easy question to answer for most people on this forum so I know that problem one is the least of my problems.
Problem one however leads me to my second problem. Now knowing that what I require cannot be accomplished by HTML I will have to learn whatever it is that can accomplish what I require therefore my second question to the person who can answer my first question is what advice can you give me to learn this other scripting whatever it is ?? Where are the best places I can find tutorials ?? What applications will I need to purchase ?? I use Dreamweaver UD4 reasonably proficiently if that helps any. Or am I better off just paying someone to do all this stuff for me ??
I understand that am going to have to put in some serious hours/weeks/months in order to accomplish my goal so this isn't something I take lightly but time is something I have, enthusiasm and patience is something I have and a willingness to learn from people who know better than me is something I have.
I am hoping that the people reading this forum are the people in
the know so educate me or at least give me a starting point from where to begin.