| What Web Technologies will I need to know for this project?

amaam89 asked:

I have an ideal and a plan for a virtual community sort of like:

Neopets
Gaiaonline
MySpace
etc

I was wondering how these sites were made? What web languages were used to make them?

I am assuming PHP and Javascript, but I’m certain that there others–what are they? I want to make a website & have been designing the basics of it for sometime now. I feel that its high time that I begin building the site, so that I dont get caught in the “Planning/Early Development” stage for a year.

I’m hoping to build it between now & June of this year so I was wondering what sort of web technologies I would be needing to know to create such a site.

Also, are there any other bits of advice that anyone out there would like to offer as I prepare to undertake such a project–cause I’m all ears, having never done anything so big as this.

I plan on writing all content, & doing all the coding by hand &I am even planning on doing the graphics myself so advice on any of these topics = helpf
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