Hi, I'm going to create a website with some db functions as follows:

1. The site is going to be profile driven, so it will be like facebook/myspace (but smaller, as it is for a specific community of people with a common interest). Members will be able to search for other members based on interests, keywords and postcode listed in their profiles.

2. I will be sending out monthly newsletters to the members.

3. Users can browse a list of members and sort by different criteria from members profiles (similar to the drop down box on the buy section of ebay which sorts by 'time ending first', etc).

4. Users can list items under their profile like a classified advert. Then users can set alerts so that if another member lists a certain item in their profile then the user is automatically sent an email notifiying them.

My experience with web programming is basic HTML and some javascript. I presume I'd need to learn other languages such as MySQL or something like that... or find someone who can do this for me.

I realise this seems like an ambitious project so I'd appreciate any good advice here from experienced users. Thanks!