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ThaiLady
Joined 2005
Posts: 2

19 years ago

Our Homepage is finally a success

19 years ago

Howdy all Forum Members,

I was NEVER online until I bought my first Gateway Computer in early 2000. Shortly after, I became so distraught by my not having the computer skills to find information I wanted while surfing, or to re-find it when I needed it later, I talked a friend Frank Picchoine into putting a personalized website up for me to keep all my newfound "treasures" in.

I thank him for his assistance, but as he had NO time to make updates to include additional information/urls, I began looking for another avenue to collecting and saving all information I found of interest to me that I thought might have some interest to others.

In 2003, I met a man named Mike Newman, who shared my interest in a homepage that would have the information from my old website AND be upgradable to include updates/additions each month.

What the finished product looks like is:
http://homepage.mac.com/mgnewman/KenLat/

You can page down the left hand column subheadings to find topics of interest to you, then click on any/all URLs under that subheading and find a wealth of info within one place (and if you bookmark my homepage, it will always be there easy to find when you need any info about any subheading later).

Little did I know how many people would actually access the homepage until Mike added a "counter" at the bottom left hand corner (looks like a globe with a cn on it). And if you click on Summary and all titles below it, you can tell exactly how many from all walks of life and areas of the planet are.

As of today, we are getting an average of 44 hits/day. I never envisioned that it would ever be that popular. I noticed, when looking at the counter, some of the active members of this forum have accessed it. I'd like to ask those who haven't yet had a look at my homepage to do so, and those who have would post a reply here or bc me and let me know what you think about the homepage and any suggestions for improving it.

My target audience was all those that "regularily" visit Thailand and all active duty, retired and veterans of the military. I have large sections of info under the titles Asia, Bangkok, Books, Hotels, Pattaya, Philippines, Thailand, Travel, and Weather that might be of interest to ANY of our members here, and if any of you have URLs on any of those subheadings I've missed, PLEASE let me know so I can add them.

I also have the largest subsection on Military of anyone I know. just FYI.

Hope y'all can give me some additional URLs I've missed and also hope you enjoy the Homepage.

Just last year, I also started puting out a daily column called THIS AND THAT.
You can access it daily at http://kenandlat.diaryland.com

Let me know if you have any quizzes, quotes, jokes, interesting articles, etc. that you think I could use for my daily column.

Thanking you in advance,

Ken and Rattana Bower
San Antonio Texas
35 trips to Thailand so far since 1971
Next planned trip Oct/Nov 2005

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