Web Site for Stepkids
>> Thursday, June 11, 2009
For about the last year or so, we've kept a web site for my stepkids. This isn't the first one but it is the one that we actually bought our own domain for (as opposed to the free ones online) and plan to keep until they are both over 18 years old. I worked on it myself to create a nice-looking web site that we update regularly for my stepkids. Keeping in contact with them is very difficult, especially having to work around their mother's feelings about it which has a negative influence on the kids which has a negative influence on their relationship ties to their father and other siblings. It's all related. We needed someplace the kids, who are Internet-savvy, could see that we are thinking about them when letters we send don't get to them or messages on answering machines go ignored.
If you would like to create a site for your stepchildren, remember the Internet Safety Rules (don't post their names, their birth dates, or their pictures publicly). Keep it generic enough that anybody online couldn't track them down (our domain is also privately registered) but THEY know it is for them.
Web sites are a must for businesses and other organizations nowadays and it's been a good way for families to keep in touch as well. You can find out more about it at web site design orange county.
