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A Family Cookbook Webpage
OK, you have gone out to your family members and gathered their favorite recipes, and their notes about what it was like to eat while they were growing up. How do you put together a webpage to share this bounty?
First, you have to find a website to hold the information. Most ISPs provide you with free webspace for this sort of project. If you want to get space elsewhere, I really recommend Globat.com - they have low rates and have been great for me with uptime and customer service.
Most word processing packages can now create webpages, so you don't need to learn HTML or anything else. Just open up Word or WordPerfect or whatever you use, and start writing. The software should let you save each page as a webpage, and then you use the tools that your ISP or Globat provided to get those files up onto your website. Voila! Your recipes and food research is all online, for your family members to read and enjoy!
Most of the actual setup of the webpage is simple - the real question is how you design it so it's useful. Do you start with a list of people in your family, and let your visitors click through to read the recipes? Or do you start with a recipe table of contents, and then provide background information elsewhere?
On my family cookbook page, I went with showing the recipes first, and then linking in to a page with the profiles. On each recipe, I say who provided it and link to the profile from there. Each profile links to the recipes that person provided. So a user can browse through the recipes any way they wish - by recipe title, by chronology of the family or by individual person.
Lisa's Family Cookbook
There are of course many family cookbooks on the web to get ideas from. They can range from simple to very complex. Here are just a few!
EEE Family Cookbook
Johnson Family Cookbook
Melton Family Cookbook
Nelson Family Cookbook
Family Cookbook Profiles
Creating a Family Cookbook
Family Cookbook Questionnaire
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Note - Lisa Shea wrote this content for the genealogy site at BellaOnline.com - you might still find this content there as well. That's fine :) I gave permission!
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