A friend of mine has documented a bush character named Harry Smith. Rather than spend a large sum of money publishing a book that not enough people will buy,  the internet provides an inexpensive and effective alternative way to publish your works.

The hosting is provided by Vicnet who cater to the needs of community and historical groups in Victoria. PHP is provided but not MySQL. A CMS, Light n Easy, is pre installed and this version uses SQL Lite. The database resides in the web folder and there is a security risk here. For sites like Harry's Hut this is not an issue but for others it might be. This version allows for users and for new user registration. Other versions are available which don't need any database. Another version uses a MySQL database if your server has MySQL installed.

This was my second build using Light n Easy CMS. This time I adapted a template called Paddy Harvest from AllFreeDownload.  I converted it from scratch to use Light n Easy, although it turns out there is a ready to run version available. Despite this, it was a good exercise and a very straightforward process.

For this site I used the Gallery feature, and it's very easy to set up and use. It's not as fancy as those that come with Joomla or Wordpress, but a definite lack of fuss to set it up!

The site can be viewed at http://home.vicnet.net.au/~harryshut/