Help with new website...

[Red]

I am starting a website for my university... well, not FOR my college, but ABOUT my university. Basically, I am going to make a website where students can log in, discuss their professors, how hard the classes are, share tips for classes etc.

This sounds odd, but I'd like to do something like newegg.com's setup for products. Newegg lists all the categories (Accessories, Motherboards, Video cards, etc) and in place I would have subjects (Business Match, College Writing, etc) and then instead of products, I would use professors. I would feature their photo if avail, people can talk about the professor and rate them based on five stars, just like Newegg. I am running the website from my home computer, using XP Pro (IIS 5.1), MySql, PHP, etc. I have a phpbb that I would probably integrate into the website, but I am just curious how hard it would be to adapt a system like neweggs into an idea like mine. I have a good grasp of html, but don't know much about java or .asp programming or anything else... but I think it would be easy to translate neweggs code into different terms onto my website if that code were available? Yes? No?

 

[y00ycdz]

can you try to get a classified ad script and edit it to your needs, my friend setup a site for pitt, where he has like categories for book trading/selling .... let me find the url and see if a setup like that would work for you.

Ahh crap, i can't find the url and he's not online, but he got a classified ad script from hotscripts and just edited it a bit. Maybe there's a demo of the script, worth a shot.

 

[y00ycdz]

something like this setup, found the link, http://www.pantherlink.com/

Obviously, it would need a bunch of editing to get it how u want, but its your basic category type system...

 

[arod]

http://www.pickaprof.com/

This was a free site but now requires you to pay.... may still give you some ideas though.

 

[Red]

Pantherlink looks good, but how do I get a copy of the php to edit to my taste?