I completely agree but I haven't done any real underlying code yet. I've completely designed all of the UI in Silverlight, and there are somethings I don't like

I completely agree but I haven't done any real underlying code yet. I've completely designed all of the UI in Silverlight, and there are somethings I don't like about that, i.e all users have to have Silverlight installed, and even with a roughly 50% install base that still leaves the other 50% to install it, which some people won't want to do and overall just reduces the maximum number of users. But I didn't want to go ahead and jump on the bandwagon to learn PHP or ASP.NET because I think Silverlight is better than all of those. It has almost everything this needs out of the box and I can develop for it for free with DreamSpark. My real main issue with my brother working with me on this is that we completely disagree on what to use to code it. I do agree that a normal website would be nice but to get the same level of power and clean user-interface would be a huge amount of work and time.