Havasu Magazine
Adds a BLOG

                It’s been almost nine years since I started the Havasu Magazine website. Although my roots are in Lake Havasu (my family moved here in 1968 when I was 13 years old), my husband and I lived for a time in Wrightwood, California.  There I published a monthly community magazine, and an annual, full color magazine.  So, when I moved back to Havasu, and was finally able to get the internet (when we moved from Wrightwood, local Internet connection had not yet made it to the mountain community), it was only natural for me to make the move to an online publication.
                In the beginning we published at one of those free hosting sites, which were so popular in the 90’s.  Any wannabe webmaster could throw up a site, using the simple online web builder the host offered.  We graduated to a hosting site, where we had to create our own webpages, via a funky little web software program I had  purchased. Back then it cost $100 a month to host our site.
                Eventually we began creating Havasu Magazine using Microsoft ‘s FrontPage.  After a few years I began getting harassed for using the dreaded FrontPage.  After all, I couldn’t be a real webmaster if I was using FrontPage.  And to be fair, there were some standard and compliance issues with the program.  So, I decided to catch up with the times, and switched to Microsoft’s new Expression Web.
                Once again I am trying to “catch up” with the times, which is why I finally decided to add a blog to the Havasu Magazine site.  So here it is!  I wonder what exciting and titillating Havasu inspired blog material I will be publishing in the coming days?  Come back….and see!

Bobbi Holmes, September 17, 2007