Come September i am about to under go my final year at university. I am being a good student and planning my final year project now.

I have thought about creating an offline content management system for a website. What i need is some guidance to see if my project is possible.

The Plan

I plan to use VB to create a little software package that will take the user through various step to create a simple web site. This will involve
  1. Installing a database
  2. choosing a template design
  3. add content into the database
  4. upload files onto a chosen web server


of course the above step are the minimal steps for creating a website.

The main questions i am faced with is
  1. Can i use VB to control other programs? I.e. install the database without the user seeing anything to do with the database itself; it all happens behind the scenes.

Any help or suggestions are really appreciated.