I need to make a website that has the following:

Customer Support live chat

Referral system that rewards points for when someone registers using their link

Payment methods via paypal, credit card: visa, mastercard

A javascript bar that the user can raise and decrease then it performs the math operations, I can short of do this myself, at least in python not javascript

A login system obviously

A system when the person buys the product on the website the admin of the website has to approve of it first before the "Mods" of the website fulfill the order. It'll be even better if the one mod that is fulfilling the order can post updates to it and have the person
that is of course logged into the website can be able to see the status of their order.

Allow register members who bought a product to post testimonials (this isn't important)

Information:
I have hosting and domain already, I'm majoring in Computer Science (1st year) so I know a little programming, enough to do this but this is website development

Here's a list of things in my cpanel that I could use if you guys know of anything loaded that I can install to do this:

Fantastico De Luxe which includes A LOT such as Joomla
Joomla (sort of familiar with, I notice there is a 2.5 and 3.0 I used older versions and can possibly get plugins/addons for what I need?)

Perl Modules

CGI Center

PHP Pear Packages

Ruby Gems

Ruby on Rails

Softaculous

Thanks

This post was edited by ArtofApocalypse on Jan 24 2013 07:07am

I'd probably stick to 3rd party solutions that the Fantastico De Luxe comes with. (Or find some other scripts online)
I hear Joomla sucks, but you're free to try it out.

There are several different plugins for each of the things you want to do. I can't remember any of the names, but I know they exist. Google can be your friend here.
I'll try and do some searching later to see what I can find if you haven't found it already.

Okay that's what I plan on doing

for templates/buttons/menus etc do you think I should use something like:

if I do go with Joomla
I have photoshop and dreamweaver and know the basics.

http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/style-a-design/templating

and Joomla 3.x or 2.5. I assume 2.5 for more extensions.

Typically, Templates, buttons, and menus are independent of what frame work you use to make your website since it's just HTML and CSS most of the time. Sometimes you can use JS to make it fancier, but all frameworks should be able to support the basics.

P.S. Check out Wordpress. I know it's a blogging software, but in all reality, it can do a lot more than that with various plugins people have made and is pretty user friendly in my opinion.

This post was edited by DirtyRasa on Jan 24 2013 08:59am