Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 4:42 pm
rukus206,
Let me get realistic here. You can't build a large scale website without a good deal of know how. Well.... you can but it'll probably be unmaintainable, insecure, time-taking and soul destroying crap. PHP is certainly up to the job of coping with large scale sites as the performance talks will vouch for. But this is besides the point because you don't have a site to worry about the performance yet. You probably don't have a detailed designs yet.
Start out by understanding what is important by reading Getting Real and Designing the Obvious. Develop a good idea of what you want to achieve.
From here on in I would recommend you hire at least one good programmer with proven experience using OO and XP esp. unit testing practises, if this person codes in Java so be it. Then launch the project as open source. Your programmer(s) can take responsibility for ensuring all the server side code is well organised whilst your can concentrate on other issues of quality such as interface design, accessibility, visual styling, web standards, security, internationalization, compatibility,.... these are all things you can read about.
Let me get realistic here. You can't build a large scale website without a good deal of know how. Well.... you can but it'll probably be unmaintainable, insecure, time-taking and soul destroying crap. PHP is certainly up to the job of coping with large scale sites as the performance talks will vouch for. But this is besides the point because you don't have a site to worry about the performance yet. You probably don't have a detailed designs yet.
Start out by understanding what is important by reading Getting Real and Designing the Obvious. Develop a good idea of what you want to achieve.
From here on in I would recommend you hire at least one good programmer with proven experience using OO and XP esp. unit testing practises, if this person codes in Java so be it. Then launch the project as open source. Your programmer(s) can take responsibility for ensuring all the server side code is well organised whilst your can concentrate on other issues of quality such as interface design, accessibility, visual styling, web standards, security, internationalization, compatibility,.... these are all things you can read about.