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I used to use Visual Basic years ago to knock up GUI's for things. I was (and still am) a terrible programmer. I'd write the main functions in c++ and use syscalls because I knew more of that than VB. I just liked that there was something I could use to draw the GUI with.

These days, the only thing I ever use is either bash scripting or perl, and I know very little, just picking it up and learning what I need to do when I want to do something, which isn't that often. Thing is, I haven't found anything for linux that has the easy to use draw GUI method of VB for linux. I don't use windows now, it would be good to find a tool like that. Is there such a thing?

dons flame retardant suit

I can feel the homosexual tension rising in this thread. Anyway, I recommend *not* using a big bloated web server. Rather, I suggest writing your own (it's not that hard) and making one part of it serve static pages (HTML + a shitload of javascript that takes care of all the UI and interactions with the server), and another part that takes care of the "business logic". Best shit ever.