Hi all, I'm looking to develop a white-label website and give it to my customers. Please suggest a starting point for that. Guidelines for developing a turnkey website. I've fair experience in developing websites in LAMP stack.. Thanks in advance... Regards, Sivi
What kind of site is it (i.e. Adsense, etc?) As a start, I would say make it as customizable as possible while still remaining simple. NEVER sacrifice simplicity for additional features because people looking for a turnkey site are going to be looking for simple. From a programming standpoint making a turnkey website can be tough. I generally have one table in the db dedicated to finding a site ID (which I call $site_id) based on the domain name / script name / subdomain, and then all other tables with standard data, but an additional option to designate what site_id it is associated with. For example, the first table would look something like this: domain........................site_id website123.com...........we123 mydomain.com.............myd anothersite.com............ans etc. Then lets say you have a template table which assigns a specified template to a website (bad example because this could be put in the site_id table above, but you get the point) template_id...............site_id 42............................we123 88............................ans 12............................myd So template# 42 goes with website123.com, template# 88 goes with anothersite.com, and template #12 goes with mydomain.com The last tip I can give you is to try and utilize databases as much as possible (rather than creating / deleting files). Obviously it's necessary to some degree, but if you can make a standard file to copy to each personal turkey site that will get the domain / subdomain / whatever you use to separate accounts, lookup the site_id based on that, and then get the content from the database, your life will be much easier. I hope this was relevant to you. Good luck!