First real script. I'm clueless.

I have been working on a website "template" that I'm going to sell once it's complete. The graphics are nearly complete and I decided to go with a flash header which makes the site really stand out.

I am at a fork-in-the-road about whether I should just sell it "as is" without a control panel, or code one in php myself. I've never really done a whole lot of coding except some of the coding in the book: "Beginning PHP, Apache, MySql....".

I took a look at a commercial website's control panel and how it was coded in php, and afterwards I felt severely incompetent for such an undertaking. I have little real time to do a whole lot but that just coffin-nailed it.

I'd like to actually integrate both php and mysql into the site, but it just seems like a huge task. And I'm afraid of going overkill on the project and maybe not getting what I expected out of it if someone buy's it. Although I am aware of the possibility of keeping the control panel script for future projects to sell again.

Any suggestions? What should I do?

If you are making a template...make a template. You don't need PHP code for that. Just make the template, slice it, and code the HTML.

Don't worry about any "control panel".

That makes sense. I could just sell the template as it is.
After thinking a little more about it, I was thinking that I could get more out of the template if I build a complete site and sell it as a complete package.
But, I think I might sell this one as a template and then work on some code here-and-there for a complete site to sell later.