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Thank you guys. I would love to use Joomla how ever my PHP skills are blagged, I.E. learn as i go, recreating something like this for me personally mean that i would have to go over to the DARK SIDE of windows hosting where i can code and develop the custom parts in ASP.NET. Which im guessing will mean DotNetNuke and some other shoppping cart system that is available as open source.

Started reselling as my host is terrible, now i would like to find the cheapest resgistrar. i mainly looking for .co.uk and .com names, (1-2 years at a time) thank you Jonathan

I would like to try and get close to this using dotnetnuke, im fluent in c#.net, i just dont know how well you can customise the pages (i.e boxes and modules all around the image)

I can also imagine that the facebook APIS handle storage for user specific data (i.e scores etc)

If you want to go down the Credit card type payment route, i would suggest firstly looking at the Open source shopping carts, bare in mind the client will probably have to obtain a mercahnt account... A less stressful way could be to go with a host that has the software preinstalled (so all you have to do is run the installer and your there!) The benefit of the open source stuff is that they have a great community if you require help. Let us know how you get on. Jonathan

There maybe the issue of where you are hosting WAMP, ive never had problem installing and running Wamp, however maybe there maybe a conflict with the IIS setup on your machine, are you using xp, vista , 7? Maybe use a subfolder i.e. (www/test/) see if that helps. Also if your using vista or above , lookout for the translation to IPv6 as this has caused me issues when i have accessed http://localhost the above can be checked by either disabling ipv6 from you lan connection and removing the "::1" entry from the windows host entry... Not saying that any of the above will work, but the above has solved some of my problems before on windows machines with WAMP and IIS together.. Tell us how you got on.. Thanks Jonathan

I Agree Usually CMS systems work with ID in the URL, i.e. so the page/article can be retrieved from a database,looking at the URLs when you selelct a page, its just a site with a frameset (left frame/right etc..)

www.vivaladiva.com Looks brilliant and i would like to use that sort of style, all the components everywhere, any one have an idea hwo to start?

Basically i was looking around and i found www.vivaladiva.com, it looks like a good site. I can imagine this system is CMS based, but can anyone shed some light onto what type of techologies i would need to get "DotNetNuke" or "Joomla" site to look like this. Thank you in advance Jonathan

Hi Guys Thought id just start off my first thread here. My website is halo9.co.uk, its mainly a blog that is based around what i do for a living ( im a Microsoft CRM Consultant) however it has the odd bit of design. I joined just to keep updated with the latest innovations and use you guys for critisism and advice etc.... Thanks to anyone that will help me on my way Jonathan