Latest Thoughts

• I didn't realize how wonderful it is when you have built a mini-CMS, an admin scaffolding, you draw all your GUI pages up front before coding, and you understand common concepts like file upload, TinyMCE rich editing, paginated grids, and jQuery. It makes a world of difference. And it seems that the best approach on building sites is to start in the admin system, then the page templates for the end user experience, and then build the gadgets in the end user experience that interact with the data.
  
• I see a bright future for me once I get two projects out of the way. I'll have about $4500 in here from those projects, but then I'll turn around and have a reusable CMS and/or admin system (whichever I need to use) that I can do for countless projects in the future.
• Another thing I need to build is a mini-Product Catalog which ties into PayPal's Add To Cart and Checkout buttons.