Online diaries, or blogs as they are called, can be used to keep family and friends informed of what you are up to. Whether its a new baby, wedding, moving house or ongoing diary, a blog is a great way of keeping in touch.

You can also use a blog to provide information to a group of people, and have multiple people add information to it. This might be handy for mother groups, cubs/scouts, church or other regular group meetings.

Or you can use a blog as a simple web site.

We can teach you how to use the simple tools provided by Blogger.com, to create a template, add and edit diary entries, create pictures and publish onto the web.

Blogger.com does provide free webspace, or we can go the extra mile and even purchase your own web address!

Another simpler way to share your memories with family and friends is with an online photo album. Photo albums allow you to share private albums online, professionally print photos, mugs, calendars, etc... and also optionally link them up with your blog.

Picasa, the free software from Google, allows you to do all this and more. We’ll teach you how to do simple photo editing, removing redeye and straightening up and trimming those wonky photos!

If you are looking for more of a challenge and want to setup your own web site from scratch, then we can also teach you how to do this.

We can either provide NetObjects, which is a simple templating and WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) interface with simple e-mail pages, photo albums and basic guest book.

Or we can look at Microsoft Frontpage or Adobe Dreamweaver. However neither of these packages are free and you will need to provide the software.

Which ever method we use, we can then show you how to purchase a web address (URL or domain name) and upload your web site for the whole world to see! We can also teach you how to use free software from Google, including Analytics for measuring web traffic and Sitemaps for optimum listing on Google.

If you would like a web site built for your small business or group, then we also offer this as a service. See our “Services” section for more information.