Putting Down Your Concept on Paper

Once you know how much time you can devote to building your site, think about what kind of web site you want to build.

Here's what I think of as the 1 to 10 scale of difficulty:

1. is “I have an idea for a web site, but I haven't totally decided on the concept”. (Also known as “I'm going to install Drupal on my own computer and play with it.”)²
2. is “I have an outline of what this web site is, and I might have an idea of what the title is. I have a domain name registered.” (This is the bare site build that I'd budget 4 hours for.)
3. is “I already have a site that I built a long time ago in Dreamweaver/Publisher, but I can get the content out in straight text files. I don't want to improve it this week, but I'd like to migrate to a new site.”