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Part I: Create a Web Page Today
 Consider your privacy. A Web page is just like a billboard — except
that 1 billion or more people can see it, not just a few hundred. Don’t put
anything up on your Web page that you wouldn’t want on a billboard.
Identity thieves can do a frightening amount of damage with your full
name, your address, the name of your employer and your mother’s
maiden name. And think twice before putting up information about
your kids and other family members: You may well be willing to
compromise your own privacy, but you shouldn’t make that decision
for other people.
Picture sites
Lots of people just want to share pictures online; it’s a lot easier to share
pictures on the Web than to mail them around, or wait until you get together
with people.
You can use any of the Web-page creation tools described in this book to
create a photos-mostly Web site, although Flickr (see Chapter 5) is for this
purpose alone.
Sharing pictures is often a great joy, but also often quite boring for other
people. Here are some tips to help keep your site interesting:
 Get organized. Think about how photos are going to be organized.
Basically, your site should be like a magic photo album — with new
content at the front, and as many older photos as you want at the
back. So use the home page to highlight the new stuff, and keep the
older stuff moving back into archived folders.
 Be a photo editor. “Less is more,” up to a point, even on sites designed
to show off the grandkids’ latest photos to proud grandparents. Usually,
one or two photos of a given spot or event, whether it’s a birthday party,
a visit to an historic site, or something similar, are enough to give a
flavor of it.
 Watch the megabytes. Use a photo-editing program to save your files as
JPEG images with the appropriate degree of compression (Chapter 5 has
details). Even though many Web users today have broadband access,
you don’t want to freeze out the people who don’t, and even broadband
runs slowly sometimes.
 Protect your identity. Make sure not to provide identifying information
such as anyone’s full name, address, or phone number. This helps
prevent identity theft.
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