The Software Project
In this project I intend to develop a subscription-based website with custom PHP software that offers various tools to the members. The software will be written in PHP.� I’ll also be using specialist member management software to manage the users of the site.
To keep these posts on-topic, I won’t be discussing any actual software or coding issues but will discuss, installation issues, member management, payment processing and of course the most important topic – how the site will be marketed.
Project Plan
- Develop a rough feature plan for initial release
- Learn the PHP language (ongoing!)
- Setup local development environment on my PC
- Experiment with Joomla on test site
- Experiment with Drupal on test site
- Try out some PHP Frameworks
- Build a basic site using Zend and a HTML/CSS template
- Try out aMember trial software
- Protect specific areas of website with aMember
- Build first free tool – social bookmarker
- Integrate custom graphics into site
- Develop a newsletter of some sort to build a list of prospects
- Launch Release #0 (FREE)
- Develop training resources for Release #0
- Create first paid tool
- much more to come…
Blog Posts
Nov 21st – Announcing the Software Project
Feb 7th – Content Management Systems, Membership Software & PHP Code
April 23rd – Integrating an Autoresponder With a Membership Site
30th July – Software Project Update – All Systems Go!
14th August – Software Project Update � Pricing & Competition Considerations
Nov 7th – Software Project Update & Release Dates
Dec 15th – Software Testing Starts on Friday 19th December
Dec 19th – Diary of a Software Release
