Need help setting up LINUX ... want to make a website, etc.

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Hey boys and girls, I want to setup a website...

I'm looking at using linux... I'm not a "computer new" (grew up on dos, etc), so I have no problems with command line interfaces and whatnot. Anyway.

Which distro is best for an public server? Also looking into setting up an IRC channel possibly, what do you recommend I use there?
If anyones done all this before (forums + webpage + irc) let me know.

Also what's a good HTML editor/CSS, I've been out of the loop for a while.

you might want to take a look at the thread i set up earlier,
i got several very interesting answers, links and information

http://www.wrongplanet.net/postt39137.html

Not sure what your problem is, here.

To run a server, use Apache. It's pretty irrelevant whether you use Linux or not. As to which distro, that's totally irrelevant.

As it happens, I'm running an Apache server for phpBB + phpGroupWare + stuff.

It's on this machine, which has Ubuntu 7.04, but I could run it just as happily on the attached 266MHz 96Mbyte RAM 4Gbyte laptop with Slackware.

I've also run Apache under XP, direct, or via Cygwin. All much of a muchness.

All combos with C#/.NET as well.

Not sure about running the IRC server. I'd need to check up on that. Haven't done one of those.

IRC servers are pretty easy under every distro I've tried them on, I don't think you'd find any significant difference between doing it on one or another.

As well as a gazillion IRC clients, I could only seem to find (for certain) three IRC server packages (one of which was the Undernet IRC Server). There doesn't seem to be a "recommended by Ubuntu" package.

Small update... I've succeeded, without too much hassle, in upgrading from phpBB2 to phpBB3(RC7). That comes pretty solidly integrated with Jabber, though I haven't set that up yet.

Also, I've still not played with KompoZer yet. I must get around to that.

I use Ubuntu. Currently Feisty, but I'll probably upgrade to Gutsy after it hits the 1-month old mark!

My server is not public - it is local, but it mirrors my public server and works quite well. It's a LAMP server.

I have phpMyAdmin set up to administrate my databases.

Postfix is the mail server I use, it's very intelligent

I also have Ruby installed because I'm learning Ruby.

I have Wine installed and via Wine I have IE5, IE5.5, and IE6 installed. This allows me to do cross-browser checks on my pages.

I use FileZilla's Linux build for my ftp client since I upload to a remote host after I've developed on my local server.

I use Bluefish for all HTML and PHP editing. It is a good basic CSS editor as well, however, I have my Linux box networked to my XP box via Samba to use Stylemaster CSS editor. It's really wonderful and I prefer to use it to just Bluefish. But Bluefish is great for all other web development, imo. If you write your code from scratch.

Samba is also useful because it allows me to use IE7 on my Windows box to do cross-browser checking.

As far as forums, I've used bbPress for a client site and I like it. It's clean and light. Doesn't quite as involved as phpBB so you really need to pick what you/your client needs.

I set up tons of Wordpress blogs and have my own Wordpress blog running on localhost (not ready for the world to see it heh).

I've also set up Gallery as a photo gallery script for a client, it's superb.

I have used Infinite Autoresponder script on one of my own sites and like it

And I'm just now getting my feet wet with Zencart for a client that needs a shopping cart and so far I'm liking it.

I love web development. CSS especially gives me sweet warm fuzzies inside

Good luck in your endeavor! I loved setting up my Linux based server and tweaking it around (my remote host is also a Linux server!)

Oh, editing to add I use the GIMP for all image manipulation. There aren't as many tutorials as there are for Photoshop thus it takes more work to get into but it's a really powerful program. Akkana Peck's book is wonderful if you want to dig into the GIMP as you develop!