ok.. this replys to really both this and the other thread. (website & gui)
wow.. The ideas you've created are awesome..
All I can say is that they're going to require a ton of codeing to be done.
If you all decide to use php, I'll be happy to help out. Since you will be having a forum, using that as a backend for templateing, db interaction, user accounts would reduce the work load a lot. However, it would then require all of the coders to be able to understand the workings of that type of system.
In reply to your last post, you're definatly going to need some type of custom system to handle that. (And cvs won't begin to work for inventor files, etc...)
Also, In terms of hosting. Well.. the FSN project is going to be getting a ton of web hosting (cross-fingers). In the least, one dedicated server and another VPS. (Yes, I write very good begging emails
) Our hosts really don't care whether the hosting would be used for fsn or flf (freelancefirst). - As long as they both are for educational things and all hosted pages contain a link back to the sponsor at the bottem. Once I get the things set up, and see how much we actually will have, I'm sure we could work something out. I'll get back to you all on this
Jack