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The Early Work
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The first step
I took was to create simple web pages on my own machine. I did this
using Netscape Navigator Gold, and later with Netscape
Communicator.
To get pictures bought a Kodak
DC50 digital camera, in October '96. It cost about
A$1,600. Later I bought (for about A$400) a memory card that extended
the camera's memory for highest quality pictures from 7 to 50.
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What to say
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It has not
been easy to work out why I wanted to prepare these pages.
The readers may be family or
friends, competitors or colleagues at work, clients, bankers, computer
experts, students, or Belinda (who irons my shirts).
I have decided to leave Films,
Books, Religion, Music, and how do deal with difficult people for a later
time.
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Background
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In the office
we use a very good graphics expert, Steward Petigrew, for our stationery
and other printed material. He devised stationery that had fine white
on white lines on it - and I devised this background to mimic his
work. It turned out to be a bit blue, but it looks ok that way.
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The Domain
Name
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I thought that
I might have my own domain name and chose the name of my Grandfather's
house, Myee.
I found that using the TABNet site I could check if
the name was taken - and then take it myself. TABNet charged US$50
for the service, and there is a US$100 charge made by the official body for
two years registration of the name.
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A server to
host the site
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I had planned
to have my Melbourne ISP host the site. When checking prices I found
that TABNet in the US could host the site cheaper, and the US site provide
faster access for friends overseas.
The cost for 30MB Disc Space
is US$300/year and US$125 for the Advanced Statistics Package and US$60 for
Server Setup.
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6
September 1997
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I downloaded HotDog
Professional 4 as an editor. It cost US$129.95.
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9
September 1997
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I downloaded
WS_FTP32 recommended by TABNet as a way of uploading to the server the web
pages I had developed using Netscape Communicator. It took a couple
of days to find out how to customize it, but it soon worked fine. I
change the names of the files so that they were short and had no gaps or
strange characters in the names, and I named the starting page
index.html.
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11 September
1997
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I uploaded to
myee.org my first web page. WS_FTP32 is fairly straight forward and I
am off and running. The real work, work on the content, now
begins.
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4
October 1997
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The site is
filling out. Much work needs to be done on Friends and
Investment. I am downloading a permanent version of WS_FTP32 for
US$37.30. The first copy I got was a 30 day free trial.
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9
October 1997
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I paid US$50
to TABNet for their work in getting the myee.org domain name.
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20 November
1997
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For weeks I
have been adding a little here, correcting some spelling there. Nothing
dramatic, a few extra pictures.
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7
December 1997
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Summer has
started and Christmas is not far away. I have changed the first page
to reflect the seasons and have changed the colours of the pages
accordingly.
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12 July 1998
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I changed the
way my personal e-mail arrives on my computer. My local ISP is
mira.net.au but also use mira.net For a few years I have
given my e-mail address as ah@myee.org which is a 'Permanent e-mail
address' I obtained from i-name at http://www.iname.com/
. The mail to this address is directed to whatever ISP
instruct. Since I am allowing Kim's nephew Kelly access to my ISP I
directed i-name to forward my e-mail to myee.org. The facility at
TABNet (who host myee.org) includes a 'Catch All' e-mail facility and after
setting Netscape to access my incoming mail at myee.org it now works
sweetly. It also means that I can access my mail from other locations
in the world very easily.
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22 August 1998
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I paid US$300
to TABNet to host the site for the period 19 August '98 thru 18 August '99
- Billed Annually.
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4
February 1999
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I installed on
my desktop computer a copy of an HTML editor called HTML Assistant PRO 97 .
This editor was recommended in
the book Web Databases with Cold Fusion 3.
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29 July 1999
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I received by
e-mail a bill from Network Solutions, Inc.
The bill covers registration of
the Domain Name for 17 August 1999 to 17 August 2000, US$35. I paid
the bill by VISA card on the secure
site provided. You can check the accuracy of the information
appearing in the 'WHOIS' database at http://www.networksolutions.com/cgi-bin/whois/whois
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2 August 1999
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I paid US$300
by CitiBank VISA Card to VERIO TABNet to host the site for the
period 19 August '99 thru 18 August 2000. (I found this debited to my card,
I am not sure how I authorised the debit - AH 20 Sept '99)
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26 July 2000
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I received by
e-mail a bill from Network Solutions, Inc.
The bill covers registration of
the Domain Name for 17 August 2000 to 17 August 2001, US$35. I paid
the bill by American Express card on the secure site
provided.
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6 July 2003
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I received from
Network Solutions, Inc., by e-mail and by post, a bill for renewal of the
registration of the Domain Name myee.org. I paid US$95 for five years renewal till 17 August 2008.
I paid the bill by American Express card on the secure site provided.
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