Hello and welcome

Hmmm, hello all who could be bothered to read this. I suspect that a blog is more of a personal diary rather than a means to anything else, but at least I get to vent my spleen a bit.

This is my first foray into blogging and it's on the back of my first real web presence. I have done sites before, plenty of them in fact for various reasons. I have also been quite successful in getting the sites well known on the popular search engines, probably because a mentor of mine, good old Tony Wilmore introduced me to the wonders of CSS and web standards many years ago. It seems that CSS is all it's cracked up to be as is the open source community, who's work has saved me many many hours of learning code to get the desired effect.

Anyways, on to the site. I am an Electrical Installation lecturer and an electrician by trade. Computers and the like have always been a hobby and were I to turn back the old clock, perhaps that is where I'd have ended up had I been bothered, who knows. For good or bad though, I ended up with a trade. I am not the most experienced lecturer, but I like to think my enthusiasm makes up for that as do my computer skills when creating course material. The past couple of years I have been teaching down south where all my skills have been quite pushed to the limit as the department seemingly struggles from one crisis to the next.

I am still not at the site bit...come on!

Ok ok. We get enquiries from everyone in the department. And I really do mean everyone. A mechanic, a warehouse worker, an accountant, a cheese packer and even once a vicar have all called asking me the same question:

"How do I become an electrician?"

Now if you search, then you can actually find the information. That is if you know who, what and where to search for though, not always easy when you come from nothing. That's where my site kicks in. I have attempted to create a site that answers these questions and hopefully a little bit more besides.

The first week has been quite positive and hopefully the future more so. I'd like to think that in the future years, my little 0.00000000000000001% of the internet has helped just a few people.

Laterz, as my students often say.

http://www.electricalqualifications.co.uk