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A great book for beginners
Learning PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript
If you have any experience with manipulating tables in general then learning how to use a (MySQL) database is relatively intuitive, provided that you aren't concerned with optimization issues such as normalizing tables, scaling problems down the road, or managing any fancy relationships. I'm sorry for how demoralizing this sounds but... based on the needs you've described you could probably teach yourself all you'd need for that project and how to interact with a MySQL database via PHP in less time than its taken you jump through all these hoops trying to use Google spreadsheets.
Here's a good and relatively cheap book on the matter.
I read that book as a CS undergrad before taking any database classes and it helped quite a bit; in particular the chapters on MySQL are very concise and easy to read. Even if you've never seen PHP before just seeing MySQL syntax for the first time hopefully leads to a "oh well duh that's all very intuitive" moment. Hopefully it will help give you a better understanding of the larger picture and how these languages interact with each other.
Note: There are tons of other great, free resources online that you can peruse at your leisure without paying for a book.
I had the same problem as you, tried Drupal and Joomla but I found it was too difficult to tailor them to my needs (basically, creating an online catalog of pictures, an email form and some static pages). Finally I ended learning pure PHP+MySQL from a book and it worked pretty good for me.
PS: English is not my native language so... excuse me for any mistakes ;)
I'm going to assume you're a complete newbie. I'm only a few steps ahead of you, really, but I can share some advice. I've always felt like 75% of the battle is figuring out what to learn when it comes to scripting or computer languages in general. And a lot of time, even cutting edge, comprehensive sources are outdated within a few years and, if you follow their advice, you may expose yourself to security concerns. Like leapyquacky said, the question is a bit vague, but I'm going to assume you want employees to access a page with user-specific credentials so no employee can impersonate another, etc:
It's not hard but it requires a scattershot of understanding that may take a little while to really get. I know it did for me, anyway. Once you have that going on, you'll probably have more specific questions. Lookin' forward to it.
TL:DR but I agree with the headings. HTML, CSS, php, MySQL, js. In fact I highly recommend this book: http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0596157134. For some layout examples use Chromes Inpector to study other peoples sites and play with frameworks such as http://html5boilerplate.com/ and http://blueprintcss.org/. There are lots of great tutorials to get your feet wet with js and php scripts. In fact the book I suggested has awesome scripts you create that are reusable throughout lots of page designs.
http://www.amazon.com/Learning-MySQL-JavaScript-Step-Step/dp/0596157134/ref=pd_sxp_grid_i_1_0
I recommend the above. What you want sounds pretty easy, and this book could get you there in just a few days.
buy this book: http://www.amazon.com/Learning-MySQL-JavaScript-Step-Step/dp/0596157134
and never look back.
If you want to go beyond any basic template for wordpress or anything else, you should check out PHP a little bit. Its super fucking easy.