Creating Family Web Sites For Dummies (Paperback)

~ Janine Warner (Author) "As photo albums turn digital and e-mail addresses become common-place, modern families are building their own Web sites, contributing to an increasingly popular part of..." (more)
Key Phrases: family blog, photo album sites, multimedia folder, Photoshop Elements, Creating Special Project Sites, Insert Hyperlink (more...)

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Product Description

Add multimedia, post the family calendar, and save time with templates

Introduce your new baby, share the family tree, or plan a reunion on the Web

With families scattered all across the country, the best family gathering place is now online! With this book, you don't need to be a Web wizard to set up a cool site where everyone can meet the baby, kids can report their game scores, couples can share wedding photos, and Grandpa can continue the family genealogy.

Discover how to:
* Post an online photo album for free
* Register a domain name
* Build Web sites from templates and graphics included on the CD
* Edit images with Photoshop Elements 3
* Share stories with blogs


Cross-platform CD-ROM includes
* Family Tree Maker starter version
* Macromedia? Dreamweaver? MX 2004 and Contribute(TM) trial versions
* Fetch shareware, Web design templates, and more

From the Back Cover

Add multimedia, post the family calendar, and save time with templates

Introduce your new baby, share the family tree, or plan a reunion on the Web

With families scattered all across the country, the best family gathering place is now online! With this book, you don't need to be a Web wizard to set up a cool site where everyone can meet the baby, kids can report their game scores, couples can share wedding photos, and Grandpa can continue the family genealogy.

Discover how to:

• Post an online photo album for free
• Register a domain name
• Build Web sites from templates and graphics included on the CD
• Edit images with Photoshop Elements 3
• Share stories with blogs

Cross-platform CD-ROM includes

• Family Tree Maker starter version
• Macromedia® Dreamweaver® MX 2004 and Contribute™ trial versions
• Fetch shareware, Web design templates, and more

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Product Details

• Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: For Dummies (January 28, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 076457938X
• ISBN-13: 978-0764579387
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.4 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #888,148 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good Way to get Started on Web Work., February 23, 2005

By	John Matlock "Gunny" (Winnemucca, NV) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

As with the other For Dummies books, this book is intended for beginners and absolutely minimizes the jargon. At the most basic level the book provides a series of templates that can be used with a fill in the blank approach to get a site up and running quickly. Then it branches out to increasing the creativity by designing your own pages. At this level there is almost no mention of dynamic database driven sites. This is building a static web site with pictures and text. This is a book to get you started.

Most of the book is on showing you how to do things using Microsoft's Front Page. But on the CD is a trial version (30 Day limit) of Dreamweaver MX 2004. In addition, the CD includes:

Family Tree Maker
Contribute
Fetch, and
WS_FTP.

If you're a complete beginner to web design and programming, here's a good way to get started.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Keeps granny happy, February 8, 2005

By	D. LaFontaine "Rex Luscus" (Wisconsin) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

If you've ever been bugged for photos from the family reunion, or wanted to show off your new kid/cat/car, this book actually makes it seem easy. I know, I know, putting up your own website has a reputation like dragging all your neighbors in and making them sit through your vacation slides used to. But this book shows you how you can still show off a little, without boring everyone to tears. Actually, you can do some pretty neat stuff, which can be really fun when your family is scattered all over, and you don't feel like running up the long-distance bills just so you can keep up on current events.

Very highly recommended.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Information, January 11, 2007

By	C. Dunbar "pisces1021" - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I liked reading it. Was simple to understand. I got a lot of info. on starting a web page. The only thing is it shows you how to use a program to get a web page going but its only 2 programs so if you don't have the programs that it helps you with than don't buy this book.
The programs are Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 and Microsoft FrontPage. It also helps you learn about some basics about photo editing and some graphics. I got some good use out of it. I just wish that it had the info. on my program I have. Other than that its a great book very informative about the basics of running your own web page.