Need advice on best software to build a website.?

I am considering building a website and I need advice on the best software to use.





I have some computer skills, but I am very rusty on webdesign.... but I can learn. The website I am invisioning is your standard website, but it needs to have two special features.





1) It needs to have a sortable database, (For example, it is going to have a list of locations, and I want a person to be able to select just ones from a specific state).





2) I want visitors to be able to offer reviews of specific entries.





Does anyone know a website design package that has these two features?Need advice on best software to build a website.?
Good news... the best software is free. Here's my list...





http://HesitantRhino.com/free-web-design鈥?/a>





Before designing a site ';from scratch';, you might also want to look at some content management systems. Again, the best ones are all free...





http://drupal.org


http://joomla.org


http://wordpress.org





For a good idea of what can be done with a CMS and theme design, have a look here...





http://themebot.com/website-templates/wo鈥?/a>Need advice on best software to build a website.?
Adobe Dreamweaver or Microsoft Expressions Web, best web design software out there.
if you know HTML from A to Z you can build one with NotePad
You don't need software, you need a hoster.





Most common hosts:





www.GoDaddy.com


www.bno1.com


www.Cpanel.net





Then if you want people to write reviews, you'll need to have a MySQL database.





www.CutePHP.com , no MySQL databases needed.





Then to design it, Try DreamWeaver and Adobe PhotoShop.
For your database I would use phpmysql to manage an sql server, and I would use dreamweaver to design the actual website.