I'm simply using PHP for now. I just wanted to get something done and I think its the fastest for small projects like this is. If the site continues to grow I will probably rebuild it in ROR or Python, whichever one seems more interesting that week. As for how long it took I would say I have a total of 12 - 16 in the project. I didn't bother doing a design, because I didn't think anyone would use it so I designed on the fly with just solid color divs. I did take 5 minutes to do the logo though. The majority of the time went into reading through the Google Maps API documentation. Any other questions just let me know.