Thanks so far for the feedback: - mixmax: I have already bought some books to teach myself, but am finding it hard to concentrate! It has been a while since I have had to do any technical learning. - uruzseven: To a certain extent, everyone is doing it for the money. After all, I did mention that the site was going to be an "ecommerce/community site".:) I believe my question was a fair one as I have not had experience in web programming, but am interested, now that I am in between jobs.