developing new integrated database programme for website

jive talkr

hey guys, im looking to develop a new integrated database program for a website that can allow for the creation and storage of user profiles. the programme also needs to be able to record uesr interaction with widgets on the site and eventually be open to further development for full automation of updating users activity to display to them in their home profiles. i havnt a clue what type of software needed for this kind of job or the costs involved etc but ill be looking for a programme developer. just would like to know some basics first. any help would be much appreciated...

tomED

jive talkr wrote: »

hey guys, im looking to develop a new integrated database program for a website that can allow for the creation and storage of user profiles. the programme also needs to be able to record uesr interaction with widgets on the site and eventually be open to further development for full automation of updating users activity to display to them in their home profiles. i havnt a clue what type of software needed for this kind of job or the costs involved etc but ill be looking for a programme developer. just would like to know some basics first. any help would be much appreciated...

Hi Jive

Are you planning to build this yourself or get someone to do it for you?

If you are going to get someone to do this for you, it's really hard to price something like this as you'd need to provide a lot more information.

In terms of software, there are many platforms that a system like this could be built on. I'd personally suggest the open source route such as linux, apache, mysql and php. But that's not the only option available.

If you can give maybe an example of a site that it will work similar to, it would be possible to get a ballpark figure.

jive talkr

Hi Tom,
Thanks for the reply, im planning on building the foundation design of the website myself with dreamweaver. that is the layout and final design of all pages of the site, connecting widgets to other sites and hopefully building the basics of the database with the help of a computer applications student who specialises in databases. what im looking at would be somethin of the style of bzzagent's member login and home profile set up http://www.bzzagent.com/. also the user profile system on 'hot or not' http://www.hotornot.com/ (excuse the odd example but its close to what i need) wherby users rating of how attractive other users find them moves up a scale automatically when someone gives them a vote. i require this ranking ability in the home profiles of my users but in my case the ranking will be adjusted depending on how 'active' the user is with sharing info through the widgets on the site.

following this i plan to use a fully qualified programmer to integrate the platform, as in i intend users to be able to see in their home profiles their recent activity and so when ever they do interact with teh site the activity has to register in a 'recent activity' section of their profile ie the widgets that they have used to share info to other sites. i will need all of that part to be automated. i also will need an automated client payment page (so that i will have to do little to no processing of payments myself) for the business side of things for sponsorship (hopefully) and so i dont know exactly what will be involved with that either.

anymore info you could give would be great, thanks again.

John_Mc

ASP.net comes with a membership and profile system library that makes doing stuff like this pretty quickly.

What payment methods do you plan on accepting? Paypal is easy and fast to implement, but if you want to accept credit cards then you'll need to research the various options available to you such as payment gateways. Accepting CC's will also require you to have an SSL certificate and it will mean more risk in terms of development.

None of the requirements you've mentioned sound that difficult, and you seem on the ball, so I think you'll have no problems implementing it