These free websites are fine to throw a few pictures out on to show your stuff, but will come to an end someday, and it may be quite unexpectedly (it's happened before). If we want a "permanent" place to post photos with descriptions that you can count on for years down the road, making your own website is the way to go. If you want to move them later, that's easy using FTP. You can even get your own domain name and point to it, wherever it is. Most broadband user accounts come with some amount of disk space included in the price, where you can stand up your own website of reasonable size, and maintain it. Almost certainly, they also have instructions (if not free basic HTML authoring software) on their website to help you be successful. That's why they're there!
HTML is very simple stuff, but if you want to avoid the hour that it takes to learn it, you can type it up in Word and save it as HTML, then FTP it (easier than it sounds) to your little space on the server, and you're done (although editing Word HTML is a mess....it's best to update the file on your PC and reupload it every time). The Word method is certainly not recommend though. Below is the first page or so of my "stub wing" website at http://www.n56ml.com/swings.html . It may look complicated, but there are only about five "constructions" that you need to know. You can probably look at what's below and the get the hang of it. You can copy one of my websites ("copy source"), edit it and put your stuff into it while tweaking the HREFs correspondingly, and have your own website in pretty short order. See below. ------------------------------------ <html><head> </head><body> <TITLE>Wing Construction</title> <p> <HR><center><h3>Stub Wing Construction </H3> <p> revised Aug 13, 1998 </center> <p> <IMG SRC="as5048.jpg"> <br> I'm using the "new airfoil", the AS5046, on my airplane. If you don't know the story behind this family of low-drag airfoils developed especially for the KR2S, you really should read about the cooperative effort that created it at <A HREF="http://www.krnet.org/as504x/";>http://www.krnet.org/as504x/";</A>. You can also find free downloadable full-size template drawings for them there, as well. <p> <HR> Stub Wing Skins</H3> <p> <IMG SRC="kmlws23.jpg"> <br> I cut my airfoil templates out all in one piece, leaving humps over the spars in order to ensure that the airfoil template/rib remained accurate. <p> <IMG SRC="kmlws24.jpg"> <br> After triangular gussets were glued to the template/spar junction, the humps were sanded away, leaving an accurate airfoil template. <p> etc. ------------------------------------------- Mark Langford, Harvest, AL ML at N56ML.com www.N56ML.com
