I understand I have a lot to learn, but I realize there is an ocean of knowledge out there and I'd like to fish only what's necessary to accomplish my task. My task is to create a website that allows somebody to register for an account with their own user name and password, submit information including photos, have their own account page, and on top of all of this, have their account linked to a forum where they don't have to register a seperate account for the website and the forum.
Now my first question is whether this is all possible, and how difficult would it be to have a single account linked between the website and forum and if it's worth the trouble for somebody that is limited in knowledge on the subject.
Just browsing around I've noticed that my host probably needs apache? And I've read up on xml, and I believe that this is the language that I would write all of this in? Anyway, any help would be greatly appreciated
A note as well is that I have access to microsofts' expression software, which I haven't looked at yet.