Re: [seul-edu] School Networking Guide (was: need detailed network advice)

[Michael Viron <mviron@wsdo.sao.uwf.edu>]

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"the approach to online projects that assumes the difficulty is doing the
online part but that creating the content is easy (my own view is the exact
opposite)."

Putting together a well-designed online web site (especially one connected
to a database backend) is not necessarily easy either.  For example,
General Education Online's database project spent 6 months to a year in
development time (including deciding on an easily extensible database
schema, deciding what web application language to use, and then writing
custom application code) before the proof of concept GEO v2 was even
released to the public.

Even now, we've found that the database schema is not as easily extensible
as we would like, that the code should be more modular than we currently
have it, and that before further development begins, we need to basically
re-write our SRS from scratch.

So no, I would not agree that developing an online site is the easy
part--but I would agree that gathering content isn't terribly easy either.

Just my .02,

Mike