These are websites for people in a specific job, with each field given its own place for guides, books, tools and writing. I built them for people who look for help by naming their work. A fleet manager, a law-firm administrator and a data engineer should not have to begin on the same general shelf and work out which material applies.
The books and guides were already organized by job, so I gave those jobs distinct public homes while keeping the underlying book data and code shared. When a guide belongs to a professional site, that site is its primary home. Bicycle Guide is the umbrella library that brings guides across professions together, and canonical URL tags identify the primary page to search engines when material appears in both places.
The aim is a growing network where each profession has a useful body of learning material and a clear place to find it.
Who it is for
These sites are for professionals who look for help through the name of their job: fleet managers, law-firm administrators, care leads, data engineers and people in similarly specific roles. They suit readers who want material that starts with their work, so they can find what applies without sorting through guidance for unrelated professions.
The problem
A broad business library can make a professional feel like an afterthought. A fleet manager, law-firm administrator or data engineer arrives with a job-specific problem, then has to scan material for unrelated roles. Even useful guidance becomes harder to judge because the reader must first decide whether the page understands the work, whether the book applies and where the relevant material belongs. The result is more searching and less confidence that the answer fits the job.
What I built
Each site brings together guides, book profiles, tools and writing for one profession. The sites use the same codebase and shared book data, while a site definition determines which material appears on each domain. Guide placement is recorded in shared data. A guide may belong to a professional site or to Bicycle Guide, the umbrella library that brings material across professions together. When a guide is shown in more than one place, its primary home is identified with a standard canonical URL tag so search engines can distinguish that page from copies. Adding a profession requires a domain and a list entry rather than a separately maintained application.
What is new in it
- A guide shown on several domains still has one primary home. Standard canonical URL tags identify that source to search engines, distinguishing the primary page from copies.
- Guide placement is stored in shared data rather than hard-wired into each site. Changing one assignment gives every site the same answer about where the guide belongs.
- The umbrella library and profession-specific sites draw from the same book data. Readers can start broadly or by field while the underlying material stays consistent.
Where it stands
The aim is a job-by-job learning network where professionals can start with their own field and find its guides, books, writing and tools together. Twenty-eight sites are live and serving guides today, from practiceleader.guide with 64 and lawfirmleader.guide with 61 to newer sites with one or two. Those sites share the same underlying code and book data.