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Part I: Create a Web Page Today
Personal sites
Personal Web sites can have many goals. Often, your goal is simply to share
something about yourself with coworkers, friends, family, and others.
Personal Web pages are a great way for people to find out about others with
similar interests and for people in one culture to find out about other
cultures. You can also use a personal Web site to share family photos and
events — kind of like a holiday letter that’s always up to date. Figure 1-3
shows part of the personal site of Web designer Jeff Lowe, who’s piloting
a remote-controlled blimp in the pictures. You can find the site at www.
jefflowe.com and the blimp image among the pictures at www.jefflowe.
com/site/pictures/index.php.
Creating a personal Web site is a great deal of fun and great practice for other
work. But personal Web sites are often left unchanged after the initial thrill of
creating and publishing them fades. Be different — keep your Web site
updated!
As personal Web sites evolve, their creators tend to add more information
about a single key interest, in which case the pages may become topical
Web sites (described later). In other cases, the Web site creator adds more
information about professional goals and accomplishments, in which case
the Web page becomes more like a business Web site.
Figure 1-3:
Jeff Lowe
pilots the
blimp (and
posts his
résumé too).