I suppose you want a sort of news-blogish system, so I suggest doing that (you just want suggestions and not explanation on how to program it, right? Although I could help you with that too, but this isn't my thread ). Also, make the menu/content part AJAX-based, so you can have realtime content changes without actually loading another page. If you haven't read up on AJAX/don't know what it is (beside a Dutch football club), Wikipedia's page on it.

You want a nice layout without too much bullshit probably (I say simplicity is the power), so I'd say make some images and do the rest in CSS/XHTML.

Maybe make a sort of admin-ish section for yourself so you can edit pages live (you could do this through a form and a <textarea> containing the contents of the page, then saving it).

Seeing you want MySQL stuff, you could have one index.php page and have the rest of the contents (and I mean actually content-wise) in an SQL database, then you could have one table that has a list of the pages and for each page it has another column that would tell you who&#39;s allowed to seen it. Something like this:

Code:
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| id | name | level |
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| 1 | news**|****1** | 
| 2 | admin |** 2****|
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Level 1 being public, 2 being only you (you could have a login system or an IP-based system, but the latter would refrain you from logging in from anywhere you&#39;d want).

As far as coding-wise goes, you can figure the rest out on your own. For content, you could have a news system, admin section with page editing, a login system for yourself so you can click an [Edit] button on the bottom of the page and have an Invision Board styled quick edit function for pages (I love that function), you could have a personal portfolio sorta thing, maybe some useful tools/tutorials.. I don&#39;t know. It&#39;s really what you want to make of it.

I don&#39;t know, these are just some suggestions.

Edit
This makes me want to recreate my Frostic Control Panel, which was a Control Panel for my home PC which I ran on a webserver on said PC. It didn&#39;t look too good, but it had some nifty Javascript stuff and allowed me to edit certain (with limits of course) files on my PC and stuff, and had a Windows Run command-like text box which would allow me to download torrents and stuff from distance. I think I might remake it one of these days.