What tools/Software do i need to make a social networking website?

what is the software that is used to make a social networking website like myspace, facebook etc. ive allready got dreamweaver cs3 but what other things could be useful, im thinking about downloading MYSQL.

What tools/Software do i need to make a social networking website?
Start with one of the excellent (and free) content management systems designed for that purpose (Drupal and Joomla are the most popular). Then use Dreamweaver to modify one of the existing themes, or create your own from scratch.
Reply:Better to use pre made social networking script, check out with following free scripts, for more information refer their Knowledge base.
Reply:If I understand your question correctly, you can start a FREE forum at smfforfree.com. You can tailor the pages if you know CSS, but it's not necessary.
Reply:After you learn the technologies mentioned by David, you probably also want to make use of a framework.





A framework is something that makes development easier by doing the very low-level and repetitive things for you so you don't have to code them yourself.





symfony is a very popular PHP framework.
Reply:I'd use Microsoft's Visual Studio Express 2005 and SQL Server Express, both of which are free. Visual Studio also comes with starter kits that will create initial web projects for you to get started with.
Reply:Basically you need:





* Somewhere to store the data (MySQL will do that)


* Something to read the data and turn it into webpages (Perl, Python, PHP, etc)


* Something to get the data to the user, a webserver (e.g. Apache)


* Something to write the HTML, CSS and JavaScript with (a decent text editor, Dreamweaver is good if you ignore the design view (although overpriced).


* Something to produce graphics (GIMP, Paint.NET, Photoshop, etc)


* A collection of browsers to test with





... and a decent knowledge of all the technologies you are using and software engineering.

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