Starting new projects, not forgeting old ones

[Charlie]

When is the right time to start a new project/site. existing sites are mostly never finished so there has to be a point when it is right to move onto the next project.

And how much time do you allocate to keeping existing sites running.

 

[Nathan]

Existing sites are mostly never finished, do you mean purely in tersm of adding content or over all never finished and therefore never "up"?

If you mean content there has to be a point where you say the design is done. Then you focus on content.

That's where a plan is a good idea. You work through that plan and you will eventually get to that end stage that says the site is "done"

 

[JDA]

I've been getting better about working on one new project at a time, while still keeping my old projects going. For awhile I was working on half a dozen new things at once, and nothing was getting done.

I usually think it's a good time to start something new when I feel caught up with everything I'm doing.

 

[Charlie]

That's where a plan is a good idea. You work through that plan and you will eventually get to that end stage that says the site is "done"

Nathan, that was waht I was getting at. I just find I want to move onto the next site before I get to the stage marked done on my plan.

 

[peach]

I just try to get the production going, when I will find a good system I will try to reproduce the crap out of it.
After a time of exploration there should be a time for exploitation.

 

[MisterX]

I can say when it's not the right time, and that's in the middle of the current project! I've done it a few times, thinking I could juggle them all, and never did it until I left one alone and finished the other one in peace.

I agree that there should be a plan that ends with a goal, something like - "this site is going to take the majority of my time until it's able to do this and this, and then it'll be considered 'done' and moved down the production queue"

 

[jacob]

i dont know that i've ever considered a site done. the part i find the hardest is that i've been slowly but surely improving my codebase - it's the implementing that into the sites with the older versions that i find to be a pain in the neck. i've started pushing it to OOP which is helping and now looking more into templating systems.

if i had a dollar for everytime i said i was close to being finished a script/site.... i'd be a rich rich man by now...