Hi Everyone. Well, after 15 years the RV-Dreams Community Forum is coming to an end. Since it began in August 2005, we've had 58 Million page views, 124,000 posts, and we've spent about $15,000 to keep this valuable resource for RVers free and open. But since we are now off the road and have settled down for the next chapter of our lives, we are taking the Forum down effective June 30, 2021. It has been a tough decision, but it is now time.
We want to thank all of our members for their participation and input over the years, and we want to especially thank those that have acted as Moderators for us during our amazing journey living and traveling in our RV and growing the RV-Dreams Family. We will be forever proud to have been founders of this Forum and to have been supported by such a wonderful community. Thank you all!!
Before we hit the road I want to take control of my web site. Volunteers have put it together for me but I need to be in control of it so I can make changes while we are out. My question is this, one person who has helped me on it said I would benefit from switching to a Mac. I do have a new HP that I just bought 6 months ago! Any thoughts, suggestions or personal experiences you can share would be appreciated. Duane www.breakthebricks.org
-- Edited by Degravel1 on Thursday 12th of November 2009 05:23:11 AM
By website, do you mean a full blown website that can function to bring in enough money to pay for itself? Or, do you mean a journal?
Either way, the PC is fine.
If you need for it to support itself and you want to get a bit deep into webmastering...check out SBI. That's what Howard uses here. We have used them in the past for clients and are currently building a new site. Its a great hobby. They have all of the bells and whistles you could ever need, or you can keep it simple. My wife knows computers. I don't. I am the one building the new site, so that should tell you it aint hard. :)
If you wanna do the journal thing...visit several of this forum member's journal and find out who the host is of the ones you like best. Most of those are easy to operate.
Probably too much info, but keep the PC. You're gonna love your new hobby.
Ron Thanks for the tips. Ours is more of a info site for places we are getting ready to speak at. But I also want it so our friends, family and supporters can see where we have been, where we are going and what we are doing. I want to be able to do alot of updates on it with pictures, newsletters and a blog. Duane
You know, the only advantage that a Mac has over a PC, is that for web development it's a great platform to work with because you can test every possible combination of operating system and web browser. You can run Windows on a Mac (Newer Intel based Macs), but you can't run the Mac OS (Mac OSX) reliably on a PC. That's probably what that guy who was helping you was referring to.
For your uses.... don't sweat it, you're fine. Save your pennies for something else you need. Your 6 month old HP will give you years of reliable service.
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I have my own personal website and I am the webmaster for two others that are not mine; one is a church. Control is more a matter of being knowledgable of the website software used rather than the machine used to manipulate it.
I looked at your site. It isn't complicated. There isn't enough space here to provide specific information, but I would make a few suggestions. Get the "volunteers" to teach you the basics of changing text and photos and publishing the changes. If you keep changes at the same location as what is now there, then updating will be easy to do.
Find an instructional textbook on the software. You can play with the website, make changes, and learn by doing without publishing the changes for public viewing until you feel comfortable doing so.
You can also use the same website for your personal travel journel. Setting up one of two pages inside the website without links to the business side of the site is also easy to do.
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