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My New Homestead Site

Posted by Stuart at 04:36 AM on October 09, 2005

It's 4:36 AM and I can't sleep. I've tried to lay down twice, to no avail. I don't know why this is happening to me, but perhaps it was something I ate at our fabulous dinner tonight at L'Opera (Sukumvit 39) -- great Italian food and a lot of it: an appetizer buffet with lots of delicious food like beef carpaccio, mozzarella caprese salad, stuffed mushrooms, etc, main courses with spinach and potatoes on the side, a carafe of red wine, and one sinful chocolate souffle with ice cream. A huge meal with a (relatively) huge price tag for two people: 2,300 baht (US$57). It was absolutely delicious, though, and worth every baht, but I digress..

So instead of spending my night sleeping like any normal person would, what have I been doing instead? Making a new website!

As I mentioned earlier, I wanted to try to do the same assignment that I gave my students and create a personal webpage on Homestead, but I couldn't since the site is MS Windows only. So tonight (this morning?) I snuck in and used someone else's PC to whip up a quick site.

I'm actually pretty impressed with Homestead. It's way better than Yahoo's Geocities, that's for sure. Hopefully it's a good assignment for my students. Some of them are a bit techno-phobic, and this seems to be a great way for them to be creative and easily build a professional looking website.

You can build your own website for free too: http://www.homestead.com