Right the site I want to build needs to have these features:
1) Users can register and login
2) Users can send messages to other users
4) Possible - users can post public messages. No need to reply to these as other users will send a private message to the author
5) I will possibly add a public forum too for discussion of things related to this site
Needs to have a database of some type.
Id rather it was
asp/
asp.net based rather than
php as my server is ready to handle
asp stuff but not
php. Although its not essential
Is there any Community style applications that cna be used to easily set this up?
Im happy to pay, but I need recommendations based on experience, Im not going to shell out loads of money for something that noone has used and it might be rubbish.
Otherwise I guess I will start learning
SQL,
ASP etc...