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by azul

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I have a personal webpage that I have not been doing much with lately.

When I first started the web page, I was brand new tech and I used it to document what I was learning and somtimes used it to help the users I supported things techs wished users knew.

Over time it morphed into a sort-of-resume/user self help/support guide. I was unemployed and was doing some freelance work here and there.

I have never really finished any of it and have not made any significant updates/changes in over a year.

I am a little to paranoid to devote a page telling all about myself.

I am intrested to hear some ideas and suggestions of what other tech type people do.

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by gralfus

Your question is a bit like a new artist asking "What should I paint on a blank canvas?" What do you want to accomplish with your webpage? Do you want to provide a service, advertise your abilities as a tech, post pictures of your vacation, publish articles about a particular subject or cause, make money through subscribers or advertising,....

It kind of sounds like you want to make the page to be an advert about your abilities. I'm not sure many companies would take the time to look at a website when doing hiring, unless web-design was part of the job. If you want to do a help page for people, you will probably want to do something unique to distinguish your page from the zillion other help pages out there.

In other words, it is best to construct a website with a purpose in mind rather than just putting up a bunch of general information.

So far I've done a multimedia site for a ministry, and a blog where I spew my thoughts publically. I've done other technical sites, but only within the companies I've worked for. But each site has a focus that is aimed at a particular audience.

by azul

doing a blog site and/or galleries for people to post pictures (mountain biking, hiking, etc.)

All I know at this point is HTML and most of it is done from scratch. I have tinkered with FrontPage (only because I got a free copy).

I am intrested in learning more advanced stuff like XML and/or somthing else. I know there is a lot of differnt things out there, do you have any suggestions what to pick up next?

by master3bs

If you're intested in learning about web design and you know html, I'd learn how to do CSS pages next. That would be a natural transition onto XML.

After that, something more advanced like ColdFusion or ASP pages would be beneficial.

by tony hopkinson

Mine had my cv on it
in straight html, dhtml, asp, php, with vbscript. javascript as an applet in frames out of frames xml
you get the idea. I even had it in an isapi dll when i was hosting it.
good learning exercise, and something to put in the url column of application forms.

by dr dij

I'm in garden clubs so I did web page for them. I used to do them for charities. Pages still up. I travel and put up pix of where I've been. simplehost has unlimited disk space for $90/year. So I've taken advantage of this and have 11 gig plus of pix on another site now. This way I can share pix with others who's shows I take pix at. I'd avoid putting personal info up and avoid putting things up that can get dated. I had a link to an aquarium site and it got bought out by porn site. A teacher emailed me so I could delete the link. Her class used the site and she was checking it out ahead of time, guess it turned into a 'biology' class.

by dr dij

add-on packages. there are a bunch of pre-written 'bolt-on' packages that allow you to add discussion groups, blogs, etc. some good hosting sites include these for free or low cost options for your service. way easier than writing it all from scratch. You'll still need to setup pages that these launch from.

A friend setup 'cactiguide.com' with discussion groups. they've become real popular, and people post pix to identify, ask cultivation questions, etc.

by dr dij

If I had the time & energy I'd try to do something new on a website: perhaps a new way of visualizing data, etc.

One thing comes to mind: long ago I downloaded a demo of a java based web tool that let you setup a visual linked tree of data with the current node you were on big and lines off it to smaller views of nodes and nets off them that became bigger if you followed the links to them.

This might be worked into some kind of 'killer app', perhaps a display of knowledge in tree / net form, or a to do list network, etc. possibilities are endless what you could do (not just with this but creative new stuff in general)

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