Planning our site

We now have a basic understanding of how Drupal works, and what the various aspects of its administration section do. So let's now start planning our site!

When working on new, interesting, and exciting projects, such as a new website like this one, it is often tempting to jump right in at the deep end and start building the site. But that would be a bad idea. If we planned our website and its content carefully, then we should be able to offer our visitors a much better social network than we would if we just went straight into creating the site.

Let us first focus on the content we create for our site, as opposed to the content our users will create for us. This way we can prepare the site and its preliminary content and structure, and then begin to think about how our users are going to interact and contribute. This also allows us to try and contain the non-community aspect of the site. We set up this content now, so that we can focus on our users and build a true social...