Socglue: The reason why.

I failed to mention the main premise of creating SocGlue.com. The original motivation for developing this website is for having a place to store photo albums of my son. Without this, there would not be any SocGlue.com.

Another underlying reason is that I see websites becoming more functional and more sophisticated, but I rarely see websites that are programmed to handle large scale user management and high traffic loads. Most developers that I know have fallen into programming with an IDE; Great if you are doing a simple "Mom & Pop" or "Just for fun" website, but an absolute catastrophe waiting to happen if you are planning to support hundreds or thousands of users. It is the maintenance and upgradability where many websites fail, and why web development outsourcing just does not work for websites requiring user login, reports, bank accounts.

To be a highly successful web development contractor with medium to high complexity websites, you must be:

A) A good communicator
B) Know how to satisfy your clients, which sometimes includes sacrificing awesome code structure to meet a deadline BUT maintaining enough modularity to make the code awesome later, when large scalability requirements start to kick in).
C) A great programmer (ie. use classes, write modular and readable code)

SocGlue.com is my attempt to let the world know what a truly powerful, large scale website can be. It is a modular website, designed for a large scale user base the beginning, taking into consideration the scalability of databases, content, and look & feel, and Search Engine Optimization (as the equation for ranking on search engines is always changing).

I am reaching out to the world by letting them decide how the website will ultimately turn out (this is what the feedback section is for). If the mass public wants a certain feature, they will have it on Socglue.com. For now I have implemented a simple blog, photo albums, and a news section for users to post interesting worldly articles online.

Coming soon will be individual web spaces for users where they will be able to customize look & feel without having to know an inkling of HTML.