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I decided on rainy afternoon that I would try to build a social networking site. My goal: build it for less than $100USD one hundred dollars. My problem little to no experience coding php, css, javascript, flash, flex and just a little time using Frontpage and a little bit of html on myspace. So, here I am trying to do what highly educated and hardworking engineers are doing with basically my bare hands. Based on these goals and looking around at the options Drupal fit the bill, kinda... I would have to learn a lot but it promised that I could do big things with little education. So, off on my adventure to learn and code Drupal for a social networking site.

I began by trying to copy and build like it was a wysiwyg type application. Oh my friends Drupal is not a wysiwyg content management system. But a highly configurable platform for implementing some of the most awesome websites on the net and being scalable to handle any size of traffic.

Working on the steep learning curve of Drupal has frustrated me more than once. Over the last year and a half I have been introduced to Drupal and taught myself much about the development of websites using this content management system.

I started out one rainy day thinking about a new website that I had found called meetup.com. I pondered the question of how much this site made in income from it's members. I little quick math revealed the site was producing over $480,000.00 per month.