First off, My group and I don't have any experience with databases or anything of that sort, only programming (not web-programming), so this post is just me wondering what things I should start researching and possibly some referral to a hosting company.

The abstract idea is to have a list of things, each categorized, and each item with user-submitted reviews (made by users who are signed up with the website).

Would absolutely everything be stored on a SQL database? (the long text reviews for example)

Does anyone have any suggestions on some 'web frameworks' we could use to jumpstart us?

What should our absolute first step be? (I was thinking about first designing the basic database? so we have something to work around...?)

Should we worry about which host we choose right now, any recommendations? (would it be a trivial task to switch hosts in the future?)

Thanks again, any help is appreciated!