Creating craft websites

My daughter was visiting over the holidays and I had discovered my website had some broken links. What started as fixing the links lead to creating a brand new website. Why is it things always go that way - no such thing as a simple fix.

At the college I have taught FrontPage to my students for many years. Our main intent is to teach the students enough about webpages that they can edit webpages easily. Since I believe in students being encouraged to be creative I have always encouraged them to go a step beyond. I really liked the fact that you did not need to know much about HTML code. So my first website was developed in FrontPage from scratch and I did not use any templates. I was pleased with the website, however, my provider was a small company and updating was always difficult.

Last year I changed providers and when I went to update the website discovered that my new MS Office Suite did not include FrontPage. Ugh! It did however have Publisher. So last Christmas holidays I became familiar with Publisher and created a new site. Somehow in the transfer some of the links did not work.

My daughter offered to help fix the links - she likes HTML more than I do. Once we started looking at the code my daughter suggested just copying the web into a program like Dreamweaver. Of course no surprise this did not work. So off I went again this time learning Dreamweaver and have spent two days developing a new site. I have published the site and one page has a few alignment problems and a typo. However, it is the product page and that will need to be updated in the New Year as I hear prices will be changing.

Well the good news is that I now know all 3 programs and have a new website to boot. Tonight my youngest daughter (Alli) and I will bring in the New Year, my oldest daugther (Melanie) has gone back to California, and Alli and I will spend New Year's Day with Melanie's twin Heather.

Here is hoping anyone reading this will have a Happy New Year!