Alright, so I've been working hard for a few days now, and I think the new site's finally ready to open up.
If you have any ideas on technical details of the site that seem too trivial for their own thread right away, put them here.
Note that I could do pretty much anything with the HTML and CSS. I'm not nearly as good with Java, but I can do a little with it. Any other scripts on websites, I couldn't do anything with to save my life, at least not immediately.
The non-technical version of the above: I can do simple but practical stuff that makes the site look sleek and efficient. When it starts getting into little windows appearing on a certain cue, the page shifting and changing in crazy ways and stuff, I start becoming useless.
If there's something I can't do alone, I could probably find someone who can help me do it, and quickly. One thing, though: I can't access the raw database, because the host would never let me do that.
Most of the stuff I'd need to edit is available to me through templates in the admin controls and oddball settings and such. But if I say I don't have access to something, there's not much that can be done.
If anything in this thread gets a lot of discussion going, make a new thread for it.