The Guns and Forts of Vung Tau: making it useful.
By Paul Rowe
Article four
This will be the final article in this series of articles written to help Ern, and other budding recorders of history write and disseminate useful, user-friendly history.
So far we have looked at:
My suggestion is to convert the PDF to a website.
The PDF is already stored on its own website.
It's been fun.
Cheers
Paul Rowe Pauls History Club. To read more about Vietnam and Vung Tau history ….
By Paul Rowe
Article four
This will be the final article in this series of articles written to help Ern, and other budding recorders of history write and disseminate useful, user-friendly history.
So far we have looked at:
- the importance of book titles,
- how crucial an accurate index is,
- the disadvantages of compilations, and
- the excitement of personal discovery versus recording others’ work.
My suggestion is to convert the PDF to a website.
The PDF is already stored on its own website.
- The importance of book titles. These days Google search finds information on web pages and guides readers to that information. A website about The Guns and Forts of Vung Tau should have dozens of pages for google spiders to search. As it is now the website holds one document.
- How crucial an accurate index is. As the website is constructed (as new articles are written) the menu automatically becomes a very accurate and accessible index.
- The disadvantages of compilations. The disadvantages of compilation works are negated somewhat when reading a website. We are conditioned to surf a website. We don’t expect the fluidity of a book written by a singular author. The compilation becomes less of a shoe box with the addition of the menu (index), page headings, article headings, sub headings and image tagging.
- the excitement of personal discovery versus recording others’ work. A website allows you to share the excitement of discovery with the world. A website provides comment boxes, page translations, and instant same-time broadcasting via web cams. It doesn’t get more interactive and more helpful than that! Oh, yes it does. Websites allow access to others to place articles etc on your website for you.
It's been fun.
Cheers
Paul Rowe Pauls History Club. To read more about Vietnam and Vung Tau history ….