So the mini notebooks only have windows XP on them, this OS is no longer supported by Microsoft so the first order of business for you is to install a new secure OS. I chose to install Linux Mint on my machine.

The project will more than likely require a web and database server and server side scripting language. I chose to configure the laptop as a LAMP server, a quick web search brought up this site.

You can update your HTML, CSS, MySQL, and PHP skills using codecademy or W3Schools.