I need alot of help and will appreciate anyone and everyone who is willing to help. I am creating a website with no prior knowledge of web design. Since the start of my web development i have created a site worth creating. I am now moving onto to bigger things. I am a brother in a fraternity. I would like to do sever things in my site. Such as:
Mini polls
Site Search
Site stats (hit counter)
Forums
E-mail Forms
FAQ's
Calender of events
photo albums
accept credit card for payment of dues, donations, apparel

Some pages:
Scholarship (brian fund link)
donations - alumni area(requires registration and login) *how to*
Brothers only - (login required)
News
Events
Individual bios
about history
pledge area (fill out form so we can contact them)
contact area

i need to know how to create the database to store the forms for which i make. If anyone has code they are willing to help me out with it would be greatly appreciated.

These sites are sites that we are trying to emulate.
http://www.omegadelta-alpha.com
or
http://www.iotamu.ca/index.php

any one willing to help me will it would be greatly appreciated. thanks

This really isn't a Dreamweaver question, so I moved it to the "coding, all the rest" forum.

You will need to utilize some type of scripting language (such as asp, php, perl, etc).

Probably the best thing for what you need would be a full content management system. One that offers *most* of what you're looking for (because chances are, you're not going to find a pre-written one that has everything you need), then customize it to add the features you want.

A good place for CMS is http://www.opensourcecms.com

They have live demos that you can actually play with to see how they work before downloading.

Also check out http://www.hotscripts.com

Lots of good stuff there too.