hi im interested in improving my web designing. ive been trying to learn ajax and flash completed a couple tutorials and i was thinking about starting a project. the goal of the project is to make a banner on top of a webpage that basicly is a slide show of thumbnails. but at the same time when u click on the image that flashes by it send you to the page where u can buy a print of the image. when you hover over the banner it stops. and is all contained in its own box. i did try to use a banner slide show box b4 but it didnt do everything i wannted and at the same time it expanding the length of the webpage as it scrolled the top.

i was wondering how i might get the tools and knowlege i need to acomplish my goal. would this be to advanced for me considering all i know is css and html or would it be a good first step into programing.

My suggestion would be to download vmware player and install apache, php, and mysql in a virtual machine and do your work coding there so you're not potentially opening yourself to issues on your primary host. Then hop to work, first figure out the logic of your application then find the javascript and php functions to facilitate getting that to work together.

ok thank you.

No problem, if you need additional assistance once you get something started post up here, there are a lot of people who are good with php and javascript and would be glad to give you a hand if they see you're trying.