I can say that you are really welcome on this list...
the starters and persons with
little knowledge about GIS but do have a
desire to learn it.
I think this list is more related to the use of the
GRASS GIS Software, than GIS in general.
This is only my opinion of course 
I want to have a display like:
http://www.eicinformation.org/data/sampledata.asp?id=2
Is it possible on GRASS??
If you think yourself as a very novice, maybe you need to
focus in some more simple task... just to begin with
something on which you can find more specific problems
to ask for...
Anyway i would say yes to your question, but you need
to use mapserver too
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