I have been trying to develope a motocross site for up and comming stars and have a forum with it. I am using front page 2000. My problem is this, I can't seem to figure out how to get what I need into my site. For example, I want a forum, I have no clue how to do this. I need a photo gallery and using the thumbnail, then new page for the photo is such a pain and too time consumming, surely there is an easier way. Some way to add a photo gallery, or slide show. Also, I need to know how to stream video from my page, allow viewers to see the videos without having to download it or what not. And then there is the simple issue of how to create mouseovers, add sounds, etc... And some more advanced issues such as adding a flash intro page, is this even possible using FP2K? My knowledge of html is pretty limited, heck, my knowledge of web design is pretty limited! Any advice, help, links, etc would be greatly appreciated. The site I am working on is www.racerxmoto.com
Someone please take pity on me and help guide me in the right direction. This site is a reflection on my 5 yr. old's aspiring motocross career, and if I had the money I would definitely have a professional do it, but that is not the case, but I know there are a lot of knowledgeable people who could help me, in a way I could understand, to become at least web design literate, and do some justice for this site.

For forums and photo galleries etc, your server needs to support some kind of scripting language such as PHP, Perl, ASP etc. Do you have any of those available?

id scrap that design, maybe try using a free template untill you can learn to work with tables a little better...
With graphics like that for your links, text links may be a better alternative, who is hosting? some hosts can provide webdesign for a nice little discount.... and when creating new pages, try to stick to your origional design
if your hositng does not support php asp or any of that fun stuff, try http://invisionfree.com/
the only way to make a flash page is in, well flash! if you dont have the money, its not really an option, unless you can convince the fine folks at WT to make one for ya
to stream video: theres a way to play a movie file in html... dont remember how... ill look it up
im pretty sure you can use ccs to make onmouseover sound effects... i think.. but thats really just in flash
you need to make a ccs style sheet:
in your head tags put this (this is an exaple, edit it to your likeing)

<STYLE type=text/css>
A:link {
	COLOR: #777777; FONT-FAMILY: verdana; TEXT-DECORATION: none
}
A:visited {
	COLOR: #777777; FONT-FAMILY: verdana; TEXT-DECORATION: none
}
A:active {
	COLOR: #777777; FONT-FAMILY: verdana; TEXT-DECORATION: none
}
A:hover {
	COLOR: white; TEXT-DECORATION: underline
}
</STYLE>

the a controlls all tags starting with <a in your document... which is what a link is(<a href="#">link</a>)

some reference links:
www.w3schools.com
www.freetemplates.com

i hope this helped you alot in your development of your website
matt

Thanks for the advice. My web host is superbhosting, they support phpp, but I have no clue how to utilize it. I think I figured out the video part, I am not sure if other viewers can see the video or if they are prompted to download it (will have to check on some different computers and see), it works on my browser though. My site is at www.racerxmoto.com If you get a chance see if the video will play and let me know. It is a slowwww going process for me. I think I spend most of my time trying to find out how to do a specific task than actually being able to develope the site! But hey, at least I am learning. Thanks again for all the input. Any help is greatly appreciated!
Nikki

For a forum you can download phpbb. You will also need a MySQL database for this - your webhosts can most likely set one up for you. You just dump the files in a subdirectory of your website, and then navigate your browser to the install file, whereupon it will prompt you for a few things like your database password and it will install itself.

less is more in most cases. use the following code as a streamlined alternative to sk8boarder2424's CSS example

<style type="text/css"> 
a {
	color: #777777;
	font-family: verdana;
	text-decoration: none;
}
a:hover {
	color: #ffffff;
	text-decoration: underline;
}
</style>