Ideas for a Software Dev project

[Nazagori_Fau]

Hi, I'm just a newbie to all of this stuff. I thought coming on something like this might help me. I'm a student about to start the Scottish Advanced Higher course in computing. This course require a Software Development project and I'm looking for some ideas at the moment. The level I'm told is to be around 1st year Uni. I thought of making a website with a secure area that an administrator can set-up users names and passwords handles by a database. The content for the site doesn't really matter much, as long as the principles are there to hit the level of computing. Any ideas how I might implement this, or if its very complex, possible alternate suggestion? Thanks in advance

[raf]

I don't think it is complexe + there are loads of examplecode and tutorials that deal with setting up an admin section. Well, depending on how tight the security needs to be.

I imagen if you'd add a really accurate "who is online" feature, then it would a bit more complexe. If you'd add a 'webservices' part to it, where other applications can run request against to get your data back in XML-format or so (like a news-site that can proces requests from other sites and deliver the news-entrys that that site is interested in as an XML-file) it would become interesting. And you could set up another section that grabs this data from other applications etc