need to develop website similar to woophy.com but with chat and video embedded in member window. what programs do i need

Before we throw any answer, would you tell us what are you IT experiences?

just starting out

...then unfortunately you choose difficult if not imposible task to do for yourself. It does involve lot of programming either in .NET or Java that is later encapsulate be various web technologies

do the tough ones first- the rest is easy.

Good luck then, learning programming languages is not question of "Learn in 24-hours", even there are book which says that...

thank-you for your reply, i relize it might take a week or so, but you are right not 24 hours. i tend to stay away from such books. so on with the show. where do you suggest i start

Do you know HTML, CSS and some JavaScript? If not that is place where to start from. HTML and CSS are building stones of web technologies. For quick start you should visit www.w3schools.com

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