| | | | Preserving Your Family Memories Quickly, Easily and Safely |
By Jan Andersen
How often have you mislaid a particular photo, album or personal journal and spent many frustrating hours searching for those treasured moments captured in time? How often have some of those photos or journals become faded, torn or even lost? Wouldn’t it be wonderful to be able to store and share these memories in a central location that was accessible to all your family and friends, irrespective of their location?
A family website is a far more effective way of displaying photographs than compiling a traditional album that may be prone to damage and the general deterioration that occurs naturally over time. Online photos will remain as fresh as the day they were taken and can be accessed with the click of a button.
Creating a family website is a wonderful way to preserve and share memories and special occasions such as birthdays, weddings, anniversaries, Thanksgiving, Christmas, the birth of a new baby and other celebrations and is a gratifying activity in which all the family can participate. You can build a virtual family photo album, journal or blog that can be accessed at any time and any place that you have an Internet connection. It helps you to keep in touch with loved ones for an unlimited time, no matter how near or far they are and at a fraction of the cost of phone calls.
Building a website can be like opening the door of your home and life to distant friends and family members and the beauty is that everyone can be involved. You can allocate a personal page for each family member, which they can build and update themselves, giving an insight into their individual personalities.
In addition to compiling a gallery of photos and a journal of thoughts, news and events, you can create sections for recipes, jokes, an online recipe book, a family tree, a guestbook, favorite links, a calendar of birthdays and other important dates, or even scanned copies of your children’s artwork or certificates of achievement.
Setting up a website may seem like a daunting task to some, but you no longer need a wealth of technical experience to create and maintain a professional looking website, nor does it need to leave a huge hole in the pocket. FamilyLobby.com, for example, provides a quick and effective system that allows you to create and maintain web pages from a choice of stunning website templates, or alternatively to custom-design your own template.
Launching a family website can be a gateway to forging new friendships and exchanging useful information if you are promoting your site to a wider audience. You can share your passion or expertise for a particular topic by writing articles and tips and potentially attracting a wealth of opportunities, by effectively advertising your marketable skills. What starts out as a simple family website has the potential to develop into something that is extremely rewarding, both personally and professionally.
So, what are you waiting for? To see what can be achieved in just a few minutes, check out some of the website examples at http://www.familylobby.com/sample-family-web-sites.asp
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