2022-05-24 - Internetworking Education Website
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A good friend of mine, who is an incredible web developer among other things, and I are starting the preliminary phases of creating a website to teach internetworking topics. I've some ideas for the design and structure of it that I believe will make it stand out enough in this already saturated market.
I'd like the website to be very efficient in multiple ways: visually, in content, and in delivery. I'm striving for a minimalist frontend that is distraction free, easy on the eyes, and helps focus on the material at hand. I want the content to be structured so that, for one, it's easy to find what you're looking for, and also hard to get lost in. The content will be a unique part of differentiating me from the crowd. The content will, for one, be structured so that you can view a high level article on the topic at hand, a configuration article, and a cheat sheet article for quick referencing. Secondly, I want this to be vendor agnostic in explaination, and vendor inclusive in configuration-- I'm hoping to do a sort of tabbed layout so that one can view the configuration for, say, BGP in Cisco IOS, Cisco IOS-XR, Cisco NX-OS, Juniper Junos OS, and perhaps more down the road.
I'd like to aim at audiences like newcomers to the field who want to jump right into the technologies, and, probably primarily, experienced people who need to understand topics on the spot for projects they may be doing. For structuring the content, I could do standalone topics (like OSPF, BGP, MPLS, etc.) for people who want to focus on one thing at that time. I may also introduce a catered certification study guide to cover 100% of the topics of a given exam; I'd charge for that content, as it's tailored heavily.
So, clean, simple, easy to understand, and yet efficient and effective in helping new learners or existing engineers configure and design something practically. That's what we're going for. We're testing out frontend designs out now, but more is yet to come. I'll probably be jotting the journey down here as we go onwards.
I can't wait for this to go live, though. In the end, at worst, this can be a repository for myself and my colleagues to reference for technology "how-to's", and at best, I'll gain several subscribers and turn a profit. Either end is exciting for me, so that's how I know this'll be worthwhile. Secondary, passive income is always welcome, as it's one step closer to financial autonomy.