Tentative steps

So, the first part of the Open Words community is now open. I've just created a phpBB forum which can be found over at congelical.com/forum. Feel free to register there and start discussing whatever you want (including the main Open Words site and ideas for the forum). The forum is intended as a place for discussion of whatever goes on on the site, as well as discussion on writing in general. It also gives users a chance to get to know each other slightly better outside of just what they do on the main site. Currently I need to work on how to link the main site and the forum together (such as how to link users' accounts on each).

Any feedback can either be left here as usual or on the forums.

Learning languages

So, a big step has been taken on the journey to building the site. I' ve now learned CSS (and I've put these skills into practice by building my own site). the next step will be to learn PHP and (possibly) SQL.

My plan for building the interface for submitting/editing pieces of work on the site is to use an altered version of WordPress. Depending on what WordPress can do and what I need, I may use MediaWiki as well. How I will do this will have to be looked into more when I have the ability to understand the workings of the programmes.

Feel free to let me know your thoughts on these ideas.

If anyone else wishes to learn CSS (or various other languages like HTML, PHP, etc). I highly recommend W3Schools.