I think the OP put the main emphasis on legal requirements himself, but fair point he did mention running the site as well as administrative and technical issues.
I think the subject matters are little too general to be able to recommend a selection of books that will be ideal for you. I am guilty of not reading enough books myself, which further diminishes my ability to make good recommendations. I would say the first thing you need after launching a site is quality traffic, so the first 6 months is likely to be spent on writing good content that sets your website apart form the rest and then carrying out SEO (possibly SEM depending on your budget) efforts to make sure people know it exists. An important part of this process is statistical analysis of your traffic and you can't go far wrong if using Google Analytics. I bought 'Web Analytics: An Hour A Day' which is highly recommended nut haven't had the time to read it in detail and can;t remember if it is software specific or general?!? Once you have traffic you then need to be concerned about supporting your users and correcting any identified bugs, keeping an eye on user generated content, managing relationships between site members if you have any social networking features and controlling comment spam. Your technical issues all really lie with whoever you host your website with, so choose them carefully. Do a lot of research and make sure whoever you go with will be available and willing to help when you do encounter issues with your hosting. It's also a good idea do go with a host who provides you with a high quality Control Panel, SSH access and phpMyAdmin etc. as this allows you to do a lot of tweaks and fixes yourself. Other stuff to consider is how often does the host upgrade their server software such as updates to the Control Panel, MySQL, PHP, Anti-Virus, Webmail etc. It all sounds a lot when you right it down, but really running a website is not overly time intensive, unless you;re running a highly successful site, and that would be nice, but is unlikely to happen over-night. Launch it and tackle the issues head on as the arise, but most of all enjoy it, it sure beats a 9-5 desk job if it can replace the wage! Paul. Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://cakeqs.org and help others with their CakePHP related questions. You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cake-php+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en
