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Simon
Simon

Reputation: 4585

How to design a web application (community site) from scratch?

I am running a small online-community. It's all self coded and not a common CMS... After a few years I learned a lot and had to realize that I made many mistakes in the beginnings. Thats why I am planning a relaunch of the whole project, hoping to learn even more but also hoping to port most of code and the database.

That's why my questions came up:

Thank you!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 611

Answers (2)

Gordon
Gordon

Reputation: 317119

I am not sure whether you are after the frontend design or the backend design, but anyway:

What are the most necessary things to think about when planning a website like that?

In a nutshell:

  • What is the aim of my website? Can I quantify?
  • What architecture best supports my aims?
  • Who will visit the site? How often? What for?
  • How to optimize for that?

Once you answered these for the first time, answer them again with the knowledge gained by the first time you answered them. In other words: reflect and correct.

Are there design-patterns or structures I should use?

Back End:

Front End:

Is there a good book, like a bible for website-design?

Have a look around SO. I am pretty sure this has been asked and answered before. For software architectural patterns, there is books for the aforementioned POEAA and GOF patterns, explaining them in detail. They are pretty much the Bibles of Software Design Patterns.

Upvotes: 7

Greg
Greg

Reputation: 21909

If you are asking about web deseign, this is the wrong place, as Stack Overflow is for programmers, not designers.

For website development in PHP, this video is really useful, and shows how to run your website along with a database. http://www.tactools.org/php-video-tutorials-database-website-from-scratch.html

Upvotes: 3

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