This site is built using a CMS (content management system), in this case Drupal (www.drupal.org).

CMSs are great for managing general websites as well as private membership subscription sites. In the past I had a private horse training site with over 6000 paying customers - built using the Zope platform. Overtime I plan to create camtasia videos as I setup new membership sites and document the various modules, themes and tools available within drupal. I have used other CMSs such as Zope and Joomla - but have found limitations with them.

If you want to have a quick play with Drupal without setting up on your own server - try www.hostmonster.com. For about £75 you can have a drupal based site for 2 years with massive bandwidth and gigs of storage capacity. The key features that hostmonster offers is cpanel and fantastico installation panels, which includes drupal installation at the click of a button. There are many others ISPs offering the same/better packages - this is just one that I have used ;-)

Below is a quick video showing how quick it is to open a host monster account.