End user created car advert website

[william22]

How can I make a website to essentially make a website. My intention is to allow the users of the site to create their own site with text and pictures to advertise their car. I have read that it is best to store uploaded pictures in the server file system rather than in a database. I do not understand how a user created website would be stored though. I need to be able to give the user more space for their advert if they have selected to pay more for the advert.

It would be good if I had a user given a website creation wizard which did:

Step 1: user chooses background colour for website

Step 2: user chooses layout of page

Step 3: user uploads images, e.g 4 images - car front,back,side,interior

Step 4: user inputs model, make, year, price

Step 5: user inputs additional information

 

Then all this information has to somehow be saved to the database, probably the aspnet.mdf database. This is because a lot of web hosting companies only allow 1 sqlserver express database.

 

Does anyone know of any sources for information on this kind of development. I think that there is a asp.net html control available which lets users create websites but this could be too complicated for a novice user of the site.

 

What I am trying to achieve is similar to:

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/CARS/sell/ola/private.jsp?platform=null

except I would like the user to be able to have more control over the advert site which they create.

 

Any suggestions / advice would be much appreciated.