There are several things I would like to acomplish. I'm not sure what type of programmin is requiered for each element of the site. Here is what I want; 1. users to upload videos 2. interface allowing people to sort/browse through the videos 3. payment and rating system (videos are not free, rating is to know if video is usefull or not) 4. subscription feature so that users have acess to all the videos 5. streaming/downloading feature (to suit user's prefance) 6. comment section for each video (if users liked it, or hated it, etc..) at the very minimum, I would like the site to be similar to this; http://www.pokeravi. com/ what are the requiered elements for such a site? php/css/html? + some kind of credit card merchant system for payment? I'd like this to be in the "video" section. The rest of the site will be standard with nothing fancy; static html pages and a SMF or Vbulletin forum thanks for the info and help.