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.