[ollerac]

I was in this situation a few years ago. It doesn't really matter which tools you use. They're all relatively similar from a beginner's perspective and you'll be learning a lot not matter which ones your choose. The most important thing is that you stick with your project, so try to choose the easiest, most well-supported framework. I'd say Ruby on Rails is a pretty good bet.

Also, I wouldn't start right off trying to build your application. Go through at least one full tutorial on how to build a sample application. You'll learn your way around the code and pick up a lot of things that seem useless at first but end up being really useful down the line.

http://www.codeschool.com/ has an awesome free online course called "Rails for Zombies". I'd probably start there if I were you.

It'll be a lot of hard work, but stick with it and good luck!

[zarprey]

Thanks for the suggestions. I'll check out the link. I know it will be hard but I'm excited to dig into something new.