Frisco Station

Frisco Station is a non-profit information web portal for people who live and work in the city of Frisco, Texas. The site consists of national-to-local news and information, a local events calendar, several web logs, discussion forums, an image gallery, and an online store. The focus of Frisco Station is on community building by providing useful information to those who live and work in the Frisco-area and a common area to interact with others via internet forums, blogs and private messaging.

Origins

Paul Leonard and Brent Eldridge founded eFrisco.net in April 2000 as a community information website for the city of Frisco, Texas, providing local news, a local business directory, free email, an events calendar, and classified advertisements at no charge. This simple concept of bringing people together via the web in this fast-growth community proved to be an instant success within the first few months of operation.

Eldridge left the partnership in June of 2001 to pursue other interests. Later that year, operators of another successful Frisco community website, Frisco-online, approached Leonard to begin talks of merging the two websites which came to fruition in March of 2002. That summer, Leonard left the brief merger and eFrisco.net re-emerged with a new design and new features with a stronger emphasis on interaction and community building.

eFrisco.net continued on until fall 2005 when Leonard, who had been contemplating a name change and another re-design, began the next generation of the website as Frisco Station. The new concept introduced the site as a web portal with simplified navigation and real-time news updates and continued to push its strength as a robust local information resource.

External links

• [http://www.FriscoStation.com/ Frisco Station]
• [http://www.FriscoStation.com/eFrisco/DMNArticle.htm Sites of the City] , by Diana Griffith, The Dallas Morning News, December 23, 2000
• [http://www.friscotexas.gov/ City of Frisco]
• [http://www.frisco-online.com Frisco Online]