newbie help on web buiding

as a novice on web building would it be esier to buy the above software to create a website.

my aim is to connect people on oncoming,past and present experiences.

so it would have to accomodate with people inputing data.

any advice would be greatly appreciated.

cheers

learning html would greatly help you.
then for the user input PHP you would a dynamic language such as php.
there isn't a program that'll do what you want done.
you could either pay someone or learn how to do it yourself
good luck

where do i get the info to learn html

kind regards

w3schools.com
great tutorials

thanks for the replies looking complicated

what would the best programme to buy to get me started

cheers

You are sort of between a rock and a hard place. It is not a good idea to get comfortable with a program that writes the code for you. Those are normally called WYSIWYG programs like Dreamweaver, Microsoft Expressions (I think thats the new one replacing FrontPage). You really should learn HTML first so you have a solid foundation to work from. You can then if you wish use dreamweaver or the like in code view to build your sites and you can use the design view to verify how it looks. Once you have the foundation, you can take on php and sql. I use an open source program called Xampp which has PHPadmin, mysql and apache server. great little tool for building dynamic databases.

Dreamweaver is a good program to code html, as it has prediticive coding;.
e.g.
you type <ac and it guesses you want an acronym tag (press enter and it well do it for you).
but it's a fairly expensive program.
(i don't know the exact price as i got it as a bundle).
it's over £200 i think though.

Oh sorry, i think notepad ++ is one,
that does the same thing for free.
don't ask me though,
i don't use it