phphelpme wrote:I have been developing one for the electrical sector recently.
Good to know I'm not alone.... LOL
Some other good examples of projects that you could end up lending out to real uses:
Small car dealership system for listing vehicles online. There are a few systems out there for large car dealerships, but implementing one for a smaller dealer might be something if fully working and cleaned up, may be able to find someone wanting to use it. Some ideas:
- Be able to upload multiple images per vehicle (have the system resize them down to correct display dimensions and thumbnails
- database driven list of features for them to pick for each one
- vehicle browse/search system allowing to choose browse and/or sort by things like make/model, millage, price, year, search based of selected features
- Being able to select vehicles as "featured" to randomly show on a slideshow on the home page
- editor for other pages
- forms for contact and to possibly schedule service (if they offer that)
- calculators for figuring out financing
Small real estate company for listing properties, many of the same style of features as above
A system for sites like a chamber of commerce, such features as:
- membership system listing actual members
- login system for members to update their info
- calendar system where site owner and/or members can add events to a public viewable calendar
- registration system for people to register for events that are marked as requiring registration
--- Different level of registration
--- being able to list who all is coming (ie, company sending 5 employees)
- Ad system for display member ads on site
--- member can via their account upload ads to display, possibly of different sizes (wide banner across top, square down the side of pages)
--- admin has to approve the uploaded ad (so need a "Status" field on it
--- admin can select what which pages the ads display on
--- tracking of clicks on ads to provide reports to the member
- Member listing system, allowing categories
--- for chamber memberships, sometimes business can be more that one category
- people love to mine sites like these for contact info... think of ways to make it more difficult for the bots to just go grab it all
- Be sure to have membership statuses, including expiration dates
Just some samples of sites I have either done or considered doing, all of which if done right, you could be able to sell it to someone.
-greg