You know, I think the hardest part of any project is getting started.

If I was building the site for my Independent Study the way I’ve built previous sites, then right now I would have already built the database tables I was planning on using (after quickly thinking up the fields they’re likely to need), and have started designing what the site was going to look like (by jumping directly into the HTML and seeing what came out the other end).

As I say, I’ve built sites like that before, and they have worked, so far as I know at least, and even though there might have been a lot of changes to things like functionality from my initial idea as I find and fix problems, it was a technique that I could use to build what I wanted. (more…)