How Do You Create A Real-Time Online Travelogue?
In 1995 I put my laptop computer in the sidecar of a Russian Ural sidecar motorcycle and took off across America, sending weekly dispatches to a web site called American Borders. My photos were Fed-Exed to an editor in California and my stories were sent via an AOL email account. After editing, my materials were handed over to programmers and graphic designers who scanned and cropped my photos, then formatted and designed my pages. By the time my readers saw it on the web it may well have been touched by half a dozen people. Things have changed a lot since those early days of the Internet and today I’m armed with all the tools I need to do it myself. Sure, you could just blog, but today’s tools make it pretty easy for a novice web designer to create an easy-to-navigate, professional website that allows you to present the material in a format that best serves your story and your readers. So if the big list doesn’t deter you, read on for recommendations for basic hardware and software, p
