Subj : Re: A big project
To   : comp.programming
From : Randy Howard
Date : Tue Sep 20 2005 04:57 am

Mike Novecento wrote
(in article 
<1127174909.699901.51580@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>):

> Randy yours is a strong answer, but I appreciate it. I will try to
> focus more on the "business side", analyzing things properly and
> joining some small businesses courses. And the technology will be a
> second choice... almost a consequence of the analysis.

The thing you should recognize first is that big, profitable web 
portal type sites don't happen quickly, and they do not often 
happen at all.  It's one thing to build a big site, it's quite 
another to get enough traffic or subscribers to make any money 
from it either in direct subscriptions or ad revenue.  Plus, the 
bigger the site, the more web hosting horsepower and bandwidth 
required.  Take a look at what it costs to pull in an OC3 
sometime.  :-)

> Unfortunately the economical necessity brings me to try ways to find
> how to make money in a legal and if possible, nice way. I have a family
> to mantain and it's hard to reach the end of the month (and I'd like
> work on my own thanks to a site). So I tend to desperately search for
> solutions...

I understand, which is precisely why I think you are doing 
yourself a disservice to look to a shot in the dark as a way out 
of the current immediate problem.  This is not a quick project, 
and if you rush it, it's definitely not likely to succeed.  "If 
I were you", I would look for some immediate income, any income, 
at whatever position I could find, and have this project be an 
after hours effort.  Cash flow, even from something you hate, is 
better than none at all while working on something like this.

I especially would bring your attention that doing a from the 
ground up CMS project on your own, just to learn a new language 
or two, is not likely to put food on the table anytime soon.  If 
you /really/ think this website is the only way to go, then you 
had better start with something already built as a framework, 
like one of the open source CMS systems I listed earlier.


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Randy Howard (2reply remove FOOBAR)

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