Trying to Gauge What I'll Need...

[Benjammin822]

Hopefully this is in the right section... But I'll go ahead and ask anyways.

I've designed and coded simple websites before, so I have a decent grasp on HTML basics, but my next project is a little more ambitious.. I'll try to keep this short and simple, but what I want to do is essentially have a homepage where you can post comments essentially, and within the form you select from a dropdown menu in which section it will be posted.

Hope this is clear enough... But is this possible with my experience? What other languages or server side coding would be necessary? How can I do it?

 

[Phreaddee]

sounds like a blog to me.

use wordpress.

 

[Benjammin822]

It's more like allowing a user to get on, w/o using a log-in and being able to post something they're selling and being able to assign it to a category from the drop down list in the post form... I dabbled with Wordpress for a moment, but i felt as though just programming it myself would make it look a little more professional...

 

[Benjammin822]

Any other help or suggestions would be appreciated...

 

[DHDdirect]

More like a classified ad? you may be able to find an extension for joomla or one of the other popular cms.

Or if you really want to get into it you can create this with PHP and MySQL

 

[ronaldroe]

You could probably do this with Joomla out of the box.

 

[helloworld]

this is worth looking at: http://pulsecms.com/
free, and has blog support.. very clean and powerful script.. great alternative if you want more freedom with your code compared to joomla and the like. cheers!