User Profiles and Site Features for My Instructional Website

It's nice that I have a "headstart" on my assignment this week: I haven't read the syllabus for about two weeks. It's like finding money in your pants pocket while preparing to wash them. Due to my oversight, I failed to write "user profiles." But before I do that, I want to expand the "user's needs" I mentioned in my previous post because I really wasn't describing their needs as much as their qualifications.
So here are some user needs:

• Learn step by step how to set up a PHP website (including web hosting and database setup)
• Users will need content that is broken up so that it's accessible to a broad range of talents: i.e. be able to skip to where one is comfortable.
• Users will need examples of code and output.

As I said, this website's audience consists of advanced web users, and web designers of all skill levels. Based on this understanding of my audience, I have created three user personas:

1. "Tracy Metatagerty" She's an advanced web user who surfs the web on a daily basis and is comfortable with the technology that allows her to view it. Although she has not designed a website before, she wants to dive in head first, and start a big project.
2. "Craig Domenico" He is a beginner/intermediate webdesigner. He's built several sites for personal use, knows how to setup hosting, and has even used Content Management Systems coded in PHP: yet, he hasn't actually coded using PHP. He wants to delve deeper into PHP so that he'll have more control over his website in terms of content and visual aspects.
3. "T.R. Rowencolum" T.R. has designed many websites and is comfortable designing dynamic websites. However, he has used other languages such as ASP/.NET to build his sites. He wants a quick overview on how to program a PHP website because he wants to add another marketable skill to his resume. He probably doesn't need to learn things step by step: it's more like "fill in the blank" for him.

Content and Functional Requirement:
Ironically, as this website, being instructional, epistemologically falls on the "Content as Hypertext," the content/end-product falls under "web as software interface." In simpler terms, the two bleed into each other and it can be confusing as to what is content and function. And so, I'll mix the two (yet try to keep them somewhat separate).

• I will need to design a site that is navigable depending on the skill of the user. Match content with its relevance to the user: from the home page, a user should be able to skip to content that they need instruction on.
• The website needs to be hosted on a server that supports PHP
• The website will host relevant links to external sites that could provide clarity and/or further instruction: in one location and at corresponding steps/pages that a lesson may apply to.
• A basic introduction to PHP will be needed.
• The instructional content will progress from setting up a page to building a .html template to coding basic dynamic content to coding a photo gallery (am I crazy or what?)
  
• Code and the "final product" will need to be displayed.