Electrical Design Resource Site
Posted by JeffMay 4
I have been thinking lately that I simply don’t have the time to spend on developing my online business to take it to the next level. Therefore I have decided to work on my new idea. Building a resource site for my industry. I work in the Electrical Engineering/Design industry. Most of the clients I work with are Commercial or Industrial. Every once in a while I think of a tool that would be great for a consulting engineer to have, but can’t find it on an of the vendor websites. So I am going to start the site myself.
Basically if I come across something that I think I would use on a weekly basis at the job I will build it for my site in my free time. This will make me get more involved and learn more about the inner-workings of my industry. If I find that people in my office think that the tool is useful then I will spread the word to other professionals.
Articles will be another thing, if I come across something that is especially useful I will write a quick “blog entry” with a link to the information. This will be a good way to bookmark for myself since it will be searchable and other professionals as well.
I am thinking that at this point I will use drupal for the backend of the site but I am still not really sure if that is the best answer since I am going to be trying to program tools for the site and have never written a “module” for Drupal.
When the first tool is online I will be announcing it here and probably at a couple of other sites just to get some feedback.
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