Goleta DeskTop Publishing User Group
Meeting Information

March 1 -- Publishing on the Web

OK, you've been browsing the Web and doing email, but you find that sending photos of the kids to the relatives is getting tedious.

Instead of sending a copy of each photo to each relative, swim team parent or whatever, you could publish them in your own web site.

This approach has several advantages:

• You can organize the photos into a meaningful story, instead of just a wad of attachments.
• You can caption the photos, and include descriptive prose that tells the viewer what's happening and why.
• Photos download from a web page in half the time they take as an email attachment, so recipients of your messages who have slow connections will thank you.

Web pages have become quite easy to build -- you don't have to learn any arcane languages (HTML, JavaScript, etc.) -- just create your pages on the screen and drop in the text, pictures, buttons, and whatever.

The cost? As low as FREE!!

We will look at several of the free and very low cost methods of creating web pages. We will also show how to put them on the Web for all to see.

Please send email to gdtpug@troutcom.com with suggestions for topics you are interested in seeing covered. Or even better, volunteer to give a presentation!

The Goleta DeskTop Publishing Users Group is a SIG (Special Interest Group) of the Santa Barbara PC Users Group. We are not platform specific: some members have PCs, some have Macs, some have both. Linux and other systems are sprinkled in as well for good measure. We focus on the issues of publishing in all forms, be it on paper, web, CD-ROM, or some other medium.