Where to begin?

Windows XP SP2
Dell Latitude C400 Laptop
Internet Explorer 7
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I am wanting to publish a website which initially will just be for my own use so it can stay offline for the time being.

It is basically to store a lot of information that I don't need today, but might need tomorrow. I have thought about just setting up a blog but it doesn't give me the flexibility i need.

Eventually I hope to log in and display photo's, link to articles I have written, link to other websites, incoroporate a blog, and offer different access levels to different people. i.e. family and friends could get further access than general public. I would also want different levels of access to different friends/family.

I would hope to incorporate different subject areas within the website so that I could divide information between different areas and share some stuff across a wide range of subjects (I was thinking tags would be the best way to do this).

I am not bothered visually about the website, it will be mostly text based and probably link to a lot of other websites (such as blogs, youtube, BBC, Economist etc etc)

Is this thing even feasible?
I have been looking at different packages such as Quark Express but not sure if that is overkill?

Is there a basic web design package which would be a good starting point for me, I have limited HTML knowledge but have the time and patience to learn as I go along.

Feel free to write back "way out of your depth, get a blog", I was just wondering about feasibility of such a project.

If you have limited HTML knowledge this type of project might take you several yrs of hard work. If you're talking about a login, and several different levels of login, then you need a Database, and some type of serverside scripting language, and that in itself can take a long time to learn.

The basic HTML part isn't hard, and that you could probably learn to do in a few months. But the login process, that's a whole other animal.

I think it is very much a case of biting off more than I can chew - I'll leave it to the pro's and stick to messing with more basic HTML.