‘Why YOU need a web site and how to make one’

Alan Simpson - 18 Oct 2006 - speaking at the BerksFHS Computer Branch, Woodley

Alan began by convincing us that publishing our family history on the web was cheaper than producing a book, could reach a much wider audience, and could lead to unknown relatives making contact.

After explaining the conception and birth of the Internet in the 1960s and the birth of the World Wide Web in the early 1990s, he demonstrated that simple web pages could be produced and linked together on our own home computers without even connecting to the web. Furthermore, this could be achieved with just Windows Explorer and Notepad.

Unfortunately this blog will not allow me to reproduce some of the html and tags that Alan demonstrated.

If you missed this very entertaining talk, or would like to know more about creating a web site (Alan gives very clear step by step instructions), or would like to see the Gillie Pooh Bears web page (Alan's very simple web page dedicated to his daughter's teddy), then visit Alan's own web site at http://www.shotover.clara.net/

updated 1 Sep 2007