Creating lakesidepress.com

Lakeside Press (www.lakesidepress.com) is a multi-topic web site, dealing with medical and non-medical subjects. Under the LP umbrella are dozens of web sites, on topics ranging from asthma to sleep apnea, from golf to scuba diving, from the history of oxygen to the history of Charleston and Savannah. This blog is not about the content of my numerous sites, but instead about developing and managing them - without hiring a professional web designer or content developer. 

Insights and tips will be shared, along with frustrations and missteps. If you create, design and maintain your own website(s) you might find the blog useful. Basically, it’s for web ‘hobbyists’ who have something to say but don’t want to spend a fortune to get on the web (developing a professionally-designed web site runs from $2K to $10K or more).

I am an amateur with a full time job totally unrelated to programming or web design. Lakesidepress.com is a hobby that’s been on-going for over 15 years. I like to think of its content as A+ and its web design as C-. I am constantly striving to make lp.com better, but it’s all do it yourself. Inevitably, some of the web pages will be dated, some links may be broken, but it’s a perpetual work in progress. This blog is for like-minded individuals who want to write, design and program their own content-laden web sites.

Some of the topics to be discussed along the way: html & css coding, setting up an internet provider; using WordPress for blogging and web site development; ED2GO on-line computer courses; other programming tools ( asp.net, javascript, etc.); google adsense program.

Larry Martin, MD larry.martin@roadrunner.com

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