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Planning Your Site - Community Building Part 2 |
This is the second part of our series on community building. What is best for your site, pre-packaged software? Custom made software?
Pitfalls in all directions.
A Foundation for Your Idea
You've somehow gotten funding and you're ready to spend your money, and I'm here to give you more advice. The first thing you need to consider is whether you're idea needs a customized web site or if you can use existing solutions.
This part should have been easy, instead it is the most confounding part, and a part which can bust you.
Generally the following ideas are supported by existing software:
Many things might be supported by creatively applying existing software, a product catalog is just a categorized news site or a shop where the items can't be bought.
Some ideas just require some customization of existing software, for example the ability to change themes of your site depending on time of day, month or year.
Other ideas might need a complete customization, because there are no supporting software out there. These are far and few between, and to be honest I can't think of one at the top of my head.
You might also want to (and probably should) mix and match existing parts, or use a complete solution with many modules to create a more varied experience at your site. And remember even though you get all the modules now (or later) you shouldn't put everything out on the web immediately.
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