hi all, i would like to start up a doll site, you know the ones where you can make your own dollz for avatars and stuff, but i dont have the slightest clue where to begin.
can anyone help me please??

Well, I don't know too much about how to make a doll site, but I think the best way to learn is to visit some of the great sites that are already out there. Some doll sites just focus on dollmakers, avatars, etc., and some dollmakers are part of larger sites.

To get started with any site, I think, you have to see what's already out there in terms of the "market." And like with any site, content, layout, and goodies are going to be what you look at when visiting another doll site.

To that end, here are a few links to show you how other people have set up doll sites, and to give you a few ideas.

TheDollPalace.com (http://www.thedollpalace.com/)
DollieCrave.com (http://dolliecrave.com/)
RexAngel.com (http://www.rexangel.com/)
Lirae.co.uk (http://lirae.co.uk/wp/dressups/dollmakers/index.php)

From my casual browsing of these sites beforehand, it looks like you'll need a lot of these basic graphics (like doll heads with different colors and styles of hair, upper bodies with different shirts or blouses, etc.) before you can really run a doll site. Also, it looks like these sites use some Javascripts to make the doll parts draggable.

Design also seems to be a big-ticket item for most doll sites as well. If you have a good image-editing and image-creating program, you can design your graphics on that. The layouts I have seen vary between tables/divs + iframes and just divs/tables...this, however, will be your choice as to what you think looks the neatest and is the easiest to navigate.

Aside from the doll graphics and the makers themselves, the site graphics, and the general layout, that's pretty much all you need to know.

Upon searching the Internet, I found a few things that could help you.
DollMakerScript.com (http://www.dollmakerscript.com/) is a website that helps you make several kinds of dollmakers without having to know all the Javascript. You already have to have the images to put into the dollmaker, though. DollMakerCode.com (http://dollmakercode.com/) also has some hints and tips about making your own dollmaker site.

I was looking around for how to get your props for the dolls, but no site seems to have them available for download or anything. It takes a lot of graphic skill to make those by hand, I would imagine, so I guess everyone is rather loath to just let other people use their stuff. You could ask around at the other sites I linked to see where they got their images, or how they made them so you could make some similar ones.

I hope this has helped you! Please ask if something in my post didn't make sense. :)

thanks for all that :Dtbh i thought it may have been easier, but ill have to wait

For me, I'd use PHP to construct the doll.

As for the drag and drop, JavaScript would be the way to go, and maybe AJAX to really crank it up. :)

All you need to do is make the dolls. I could write a simple PHP script for you. :)

oh, cool, thanks ever so much so what would that do exactly???
oh i cant thank you enough :D

Well, the user would select the head, body, and legs or whatever using a simple form. Then, when they clicked "Make My Doll!" or something, the PHP script would get the specs of the doll and compile an image.

Well, the user would select the head, body, and legs or whatever using a simple form. Then, when they clicked "Make My Doll!" or something, the PHP script would get the specs of the doll and compile an image.

great that would be cool if you really wouldnt mind, how would i go abojut getting the site etc??

You need a host that supports PHP, like php.net.

ok thank you i will go ahead and look into that :D