Dear Eunice and Ron
>>As we are doing this ourselves in basic html and not using any software
programs it takes a lot of fiddling around<<
You (and others venturing into web publishing) might then be interested in
AOLPress. This is a free WYSIWYG HTML editor available from....
http://www.aolpress.com/press/
It is isn't as feature ridden (ie complicated to use <g>) as Frontpage or
Dreamweaver etc. but is a relatively painless way for beginners to compose
their web pages and learn HTML as well. (Although it makes it possible to
publish to the web with no knowledge of HTML). It is quite a large download
(about 3MB) but well worth the cost.
As you have discovered <g> - browser compatability is very important and as
both IE and Netscape Navigator are free it pays to check your work in both
before publication. In the browser wars IE seem to have the upper hand at
the moment, but a new version of Navigator is due very soon and likely to
become the default tool of the millions of AOL users.
I would certainly urge all local groups and individuals to publish their
interests and projects on the web. Indeed local groups have the unique
orportunity of publishing their journals/newsletters to the web and
reaching a world wide readership at very little cost, - in the UK at least
most free ISPs provide web hosting services and the cost of hardware - a
basic PC - has fallen dramtically over the past two years.
My own web site is of marginal interest to Local Historians - just a
bibliography of sources for Roman Britain, but it has become a mammoth task
as I have now accumulated over three thousand references. I have still to
classify and publish the bulk of them, but anyone interested in the Roman
period of British Local Hiistory please have a look at....
www.btinternet.com/~britannica
...constructive critisism and encouragment are very welcome.
Eric
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