Is there anyone out there that create a social networking website like facebok?

I want to create this social networking site i have already designed the template all i need to know is what programming languages i need to know and how long it will take me.

Is there anyone out there that create a social networking website like facebok?
The main Facebook site itself doesn't have any flash. Not that I've noticed anyway.





The main things you'll need to learn are HTML/CSS and I guess Javascript. You can learn these at http://www.w3schools.com


I think that is better than the average book, as it also has a sandbox where you can play around with and modify the examples they give.





You can use something like Dreamweaver to create your site if you don't really want to learn these, but I'd say its best to know at least a little of each of these technologies.





If you have images for logos, backgrounds or whatever other reason, you'll need some sort of graphical package. Doesn't have to be photoshop. gimp and paint.net are free, you could try one of those.
Reply:Visual Web Developer is the way to go, you can download the express edition from Microsoft's site. It's totally free and you're also allowed to use it for commercial apps. Download it, install it, run it and start by selecting "File -%26gt; New Web Site" from the menu.





At this point you'll see the templates that come with it, select "Personal Web Site Starter Kit" and then click ok. Wait for the project to be created then hit F5 to compile and run it. When the "Debugging Not Enabled" dialog box appears just press ok (it only appears this once). Congratulations, you've just built your first web application.





Now that you have a basic shell up and running you can start to learn web development. At some point you'll also want to download SQL Server Express (also free) so that you use databases with your site (user accounts etc). If you've never done any programming before and you're prepared to work a bit at it every day then expect to take maybe 6 months to get to the point where you could make a simple Facebook-type site, fortunately there is LOTS of help available for this particular package online.





There are plenty of other ways to get a site up and running, but doing it like this is the quickest way to get a web page with at least some functionality running on your local machine. Visual Studio actually sets up a web server on your machine, so if you know your external IP address then you can even make the page visible to the outside world right away.
Reply:Well, definitely you want to know HTML. You will also need to hire people to help you out with any FLASH animations, Photoshop, etc.