I have never done a website and quite frankly, I know almost nothing about them. I am the adult leader for a teenage firefighting youth group and we have decided to put together a website in order to promote our organization.

Here is mainly what we want to do. (any other cool ideas would also be apreciated.
* Home page to decribe who we are - showing our logo.
* A place to put a photo gallery of the youth
* A how to join page
* Links to other youth groups like ours and possibly businesses that deal in fire or EMS stuff. (could this possible generate some money ?)
* A Newsletter page (updated quarterly)
* Current fundraisers and how peple can purchase
* Means of allowing people to donate to our organization.
* a contact us method - somehow send an email to us

Members only area:
* Calender of events
* Technical training page
* Blog by the organization leader
* A place to put all of our many standard operating procedures with an index to select them
* Archive of training plans
* Members would have to l;ogin and have their password.

These are just a few thoughts but i would be nice to have flexibility. With all the info on this site, it is difficult to know where to start and what software to use to create our site. I did by a software package called WE EASY Pro 7. It was only $50 and for all I know it won't be all that we need. Therefore I am asking the question, what should be the process for achieving our goal?

I would appreciate any advise. (Sorry for the lengthy thread).

Thanks,
Dan