Please advise me where to begin with my idea

[bluegraphic]

Hi everyone... I want to make a website where people could register as a member for free, download pictures to their profiles or just download them on particular page, post topics, replies, I want them to be able to click lets say F12 and they would be able to post topic using cyrillic language. Should I started by writing codes? HTML or DHTML, wich one? if that is the way to go, then what book would you suggest me to use?

Very appreciated for any reply.

[Scally_Ally]

i personally would just learn html and css.. When you have done that i would advise learning asp or php to deal with your passwords and posting, whatever, in conjunction with a database.

Before you go out buying a book check out some tutorials on the web. I find this site very useful.

www.w3schools.com

[Eltiti]

While it is certainly very useful to have some basic HTML/CSS/programming skills, it would take quite a while, IMO, before you would have enough skills to build all that yourself...

I'd suggest looking around a bit: you may find that (inexpensive?) software that does (most of) what you want already exists!

[Scally_Ally]

I agree... By the sounds of it you are tryin to make some kind of forum.

I downloaded one about 2 years ago where you just put in your name and the name of your forum and away you go. Brilliant it was..

Im sure there are even better ones out now. All free too

[kaled]

Functions keys are not accessible to webmasters. All you have to play with is text input and mouse events, etc.

Some browsers such as IE might have features that let you intercept keystrokes such as F12 but it is unlikely that you could find a way to use such keys reliably. It would also necessitate the use of javascript which should be reserved for features rather than core website functions.

Kaled.