General Database/Web Site Development

[zephyr325]

OK, here's the scoop. I've got a quest database I want to publish, and I want to create a website to do it. This will be something that both allows people to read things, but I want them to be able to upload quests as I'm trying to make it a little more functional that the peq quest database. (I talked to Sotonin, and he's all for it...he's just pico'ing what's there right now).

I'm decent with HTML, but I've never tried to do anything as complex as connecting a database, dynamic web content, etc. I'm running my server on Windows 2003.

I've got the database already setup in both access and mysql.

What's a recommendation for easy-to-learn languange/database connection? ASP/access database? php/mysql? asp/mysql? ???

One of the other things I'm looking for is a free development environment that is pretty easy to use to write all this stuff in.

At this point I'm more interested in getting something up and running, rather than spending months trying to get something pretty up that everyone "ooh"'s and "ah"s over.

Thanks...