Karen asked me:

"How important is a typical website? And for a starving artist, is there a webmaster you can recommend. When I've looked into it I got discouraged because it seems you need to know "computer talk" to create a page. To begin with, I would like to have a page with "about the author" with links to my other writings, links to information on creating your own family history, and an exerpt from my book...things like that. Any suggestions?"
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I finally gave up on a webmaster and am now doing my own webiste. For a whole slew of reasons. I find FrontPage is quite user friendly and a friend helped me get started. I think I'd rather pay someone for a get-started lesson though (you know Frugal me!) than suffer with a slow or poor webmaster, and how do you know? References, I guess. Dotsie seems to have a good one (-: .

Also, I'm finding my blogs are getting more hits than my website so that might be an alternative. I now have three and they are user-friendly to install. I do strong suggest you use blogspot.com. For too many reasons to reiterate. You don't want a whole book. Ha! And, yes you could do something like the simple idea you outlined very easily.

Best,
Carolyn