Thank you all for your replies. I'll try to be more specific. I feel I need some technical guidance in how to get a moderately interactive site up and running. Google App Engine seems interesting, and what I have in mind is to build a simple database backend with some forms, just for practice, and especially motivation. I know some python, some html, less js, little css... but as I have a day job and a family I feel I will never deploy anything (even if it's just a hobby) if I try to learn each area well enough.

This is the kind of project kickoff that I mean: actual code for some "dumb", simple project. I'm guilty of course of spending too much time on single, specific topics that are not really necessary at this stage. (Say, how to make the forms look good, how to validate them with js, etc., even though the whole project is not there yet.)

Will get there someday! At least to a hobby-worthy level.

Thanks!