My Daughter the Web Author

I'm getting started because my daughter asked me if she could have her own web page. She's 9. I'm not even sure what I was doing when I was nine, but I'm pretty sure it involved baseball cards in the spokes of my bicycle. Personal computers were still ten years in the future. The web would wait another ten years after that.

I've dabbled with web pages in the past, because as a tech geek kind of guy it seemed like the thing to do. I don't have the time to make anything really interesting or useful though. I started with one of the free web hosting services and used Microsoft Frontpage to design. The free service is gone now, as is Frontpage from my current PC. I moved on to Comcast because it was included in my service. Now I'm using UVerse, so I thought I'd start there. This was not as easy as I expected. There was no link or information on the AT&T account pages on how or even if I could create a web page using the service. I did track down a way finally based off of a message board posting I found from Google. It was ugly though. Still I let my daughter create a page, and she seemed pretty happy. I haven't looked at it yet.

I'm going to try Blogger now. It looks like it might be better suited for what my girl wants to do, which I think amounts to posting pictures of her friends and goofy stories about her dogs.