Introduction

What

Write your own web of browser pages. These are HTML pages with CSS files and in some cases they use Javascript libraries.
Copy and edit YOW Free Sample. Turn it into your own web of pages.
Read this YOW Doc to learn how and why.
Keep a history of your changes.
This is a Git repository which tracks what you have done so you can remember and work with what you did before.

How

Never start from scratch. HTML format is too fussy.
Always copy and edit a page with the format you want.
Put your text, pictures and links on the page. Make it your page.
Go to YOW Free Sample download page to get a nice set of starter pages.
Use tools you control.
Download these three programs to get the tools you need.
  1. Amaya download page for editing
  2. Git download page for a history of changes
  3. Tortoise Git download page to make using Git easy.
Create, edit and maintain your own browser pages.

Why

Write with hyperlinks[1] to help find documents and provide connections.
Keep a history of changes to learn and remember.
It's your writing. You decide where to publish it. You decide the rules others should follow when using it.

In this world where a lot of techology comes and goes quickly HTML, CSS and Git have all been around for at least ten years and will be around for at least ten more years. Time spent learning and using these will not be wasted.

Facebook and LinkedIn provide ways to write linked pages and they are fine for what they are. Still, they and other online publishing services come with their own requirements, i.e., who you publish for and their rights to what you publish.You may choose to use them but they are not appropriate for all writing.

Don't write for paper. You cannot hyperlink to or from paper.
Don't write long emails. You cannot hyperlink to emails.
Create webs of linked browser pages. Write HTML[2].

Write browser pages. Keep them private or make them public on the World Wide Web. You decide.

References

  1. ^ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperlink Retrieved 2014 06 29

    Do not discount the importance of index or home pages. Their hyperlink lists of other pages act as hubs in hub and spoke arrangements. The index helps you find your way around and keeps you from losing pages. Is there some important correspondence with real spider webs which are often hub and spoke arrangements?

  2. ^ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML Retrieved 2014 06 29

    http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/FAQ.html#have Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the WWW, comments on what is novel about the web compared to other hypertext systems. Retrieved on 2014 07 03