Starting a new Site - Should I "Use a Template" or "Write from Scratch"

I have been thinking of starting a site of my own for long time. I am good at all concepts of C#/ASP.NET and all DB stuff. I have created and can create a site from scratch for myself. But the effort/time involved in creating a site from scratch is little discouraging, where next thing (a开发者_高级运维nd more important thing) I need to worry about is the content on the site.

I have seen many sites and blogs (few links below).

I need to know, what is the general approach while creating a similar site? Are there any general tips i need to be aware of before starting one?

http://naspinski.net

http://codeclimber.net.nz

Do you mean stating you own Blog?

you can open blog on some free service as Blogger and see how it goes.

Later you can buy you own domain name and hosting, install existing Blog engine there(even open source if you want to tweak it) and continue from there.

after comment clarification: Buy a domain name, buy disk space and traffic from hosting company. Install ant cms(content managment system)/blog/forum/anything else you wan ton the host. Develop only the parts you can't find in existing cms/blog systems. No need to develop everything from scratch. With saved time you can take any open-source blog/cms engine and help them with patches.

Consider some open source C#/asp.net blogging platforms:

• Oxite
• BlogEngine.NET
• Subtext

If you're talking about a blog site, there's no need to reinvent the wheel unless you just want to. There are plenty of capable blog engines in any language of your choice. Go with one and extend it if necessary.

Building your own blog engine is fast and easy. Building a good one is slow and hard. I've written many iterations of my blog - currently version 6 using ASP.NET and C#, and working on the design for version 7.

As to whether it's worth it, that's really your call. Do you code in your free time? Enjoy it? Are you willing to go through the whole lifecycle?

You will be responsible for:

• Analysis & Design
• Development
• Testing
• Deployment
• Prod support

It's worth it to me. Is it worth it to you?

It really depends how much time you're willing to spend on it and what kind of site.If you want a blog site,there are a lot of free blog engine out there that you can use and takes a little time to make it live.My number one recommendation is blogengine.net...very flexible,a lot of choices for theme,and easy to set up.However, if you're like me that is willing to spend a lot of time building it then go for it.I started building my site....a social networking site(http://www.joecaps.com) December 2008 and until now I'm still building it.