Good Afternoon,
My name is James and I'm a Biology teacher living in London. I have been a fan of the Ben heck show for quite sometime. Videogames and incredible Mechanical Engineering projects - wish I could do both - got me interested in the show.
Being a fan of the show, I am hoping other fans on element 14 could help me with a project I am working on - your advise would truly be very helpful. My friends (who are also teachers) and I are considering starting a tuition firm for schools in the London Borough area. The project is a School Management Website for the tuition firm - people might say that I could easily get someone to develop it for me. You are right but, I am the kind of person who loves to challenge himself. I have never written code or created a program, this project would be an ideal time to learn from scratch something entirely new - my friends also haven't a clue about programming or website development.
I was asking around and I was told that the simplest way to develop a School Management Website would be to get an "Open Source School Management Software Program" and a "Server." The open source program would have to be free in other for the project's budget to remain healthy. Please, how do I go about doing this? What are the first steps I have to take? I found an article which reviewed three open source programs for school management - URL. I was told that all I had to do was upload the program to a server and purchase a domain name.
Please if you have any ideas and would like to aid me on this journey, kindly drop me a few lines. Cheers!