Newbie needs help from an experienced coder..

I'm looking for someone that knows a bit about smaug coding....I'm a complete newbie and wanting to learn a few things...We're trying to create a mud and none of us know much about coding. We'd appreciate anyone's help

Try reading this first:

http://www.gammon.com.au/smaug/howtocompile.htm

There are various people here who know stuff about coding - they will probably respond to a more specific question, like, "how do I do X"?

However it has been said before, and I'll say it again, if you are a newbie coder - that is no crime in itself, we all had to start somewhere - but changing a MUD server if you don't know much about C programming is asking for a lot of frustration. Try a simpler project first. If you want to jump into the deep end, download the latest source, and start browsing it to see how it works, for example, what happens when you type "look".

Well, one specific question that we're needing is How do I create a new channel or change one already made?

Take a look at this:
http://www.auricmud.com/snippets/new-channel.html

Whoops, site is down. Here:
http://web.archive.org/web/20050212141045/http://www.auricmud.com/snippets/new-channel.html