First of all, hello, I'm new here, and hope to be an upstanding member of the community.

Now, Im in the process of making a website, nothing big just a site dedicated to a vbulletin mod I made.

What I need to do is make an admin area, where I can login and access links to other admin areas of my site, like my download manager, and a couple of other places that require me to login.

Now, I dont really know HTML, or any programming language for that matter, but im not totally stupid, I can modify darn near anything

How would I go about making such an area for myself? I dont want the "admin" link to be visible to the general public, since no one else has any reason to login to my site, and secondly, is it possible to pass the login/password to the other scripts Im using, so I dont have to login individually?

For instance if i login to my admin area, and then click on a link to go to my cpanel, or phpmyadmin, I dont want to have to login again if i dont have to.
or accessing my "DL Monitor" admincp to manage my downloads, I dont want to have to login a second time whenever I need to go somewhere.

Is this possible? and if so, how would i go about doing this?

What you're looking for uses the following languages. yes, all of them.

PHP, MYSQL, HTML, CSS, and for style, maybe some JAVA (or ASP.net if windows is your thing)

I'm not going to lie, PHP is a beast to learn. When I first thought, "I'm done with open source! I shall code my own!" I abandoned the project within two weeks. It's that irritating. However, here's my method of understanding PHP. (UNDERSTANDING mind you, not coding like a pro!)

Pick a fairly simple script, which doesn't have functions setup. (something like a news script, or if you're not prone to panic, take a look at the SMF theme editor.) Now, get yourself a phrasebook (I use Wenz. It's purple.) and try to identify how everything works. Supplement with online tutorials. I can send you a small script if you'd like.

CSS - can be learned in....maybe an hour to two tops? It's a pretty simple concept. There are some wicked advanced techniques, but the foundation works just fine.

HTML - can be learned in maybe three hours, just for basics. The idea behind the more advanced functions and integrations comes later.

MYSQL - I'm still figuring it out, sorry.

JAVA - See above.

There are plenty of resources out there. What you're going for is an "authentication script." I don't know if you can get away with jumping from script to script without logging in, unless you have your own server, then you can set them up yourself.

I have done some fairly in depth stuff with vBulletin, which you may know encompasses all fo those languages.

Mind you I couldn't write anything from scratch at this point, and it's been about 2 years since I've last played with it all.

I would be interested in the small script you mentioned, And I will take a look at the phrase book when I get some cash.

So where would I start this undertaking? I'm not really looking for anything complicated, just a page with links to where I might need to go really.... I cant think of much I'd add to it.

A link to cPanel, phpMyAdmin, MySQL Databases, and my DL or link trackers. that might be about it. I'm not planning on making this page big and involved.