Beach Haven

This post was originally published in March of 2014 on another platform:

I use SharePoint extensively at work. I want to start understanding how I might use it to help our family stay better connected. For years I have managed a website at http://bhaven.org but ​have not updated or refreshed it in a log time. I'm hopeful that by using SharePoint I won't have to personally update the platform as in the past, but now I'll let Microsoft do it. If this gets me where I want to go I'll keep it up. The current space I'm working on is a public space. With time I'll decide how to manage the private space. Wish me luck.

For some years I built the Beach Haven website manually using ipower.com as a hosting site. Some years ago it got difficult with the limited tools I had at the time to keep up every time browser technology changed. I also wasn't able to separately create a mobile friendly version of the site. My solution was to use Microsoft 365, specifically the SharePoint tool. I am very familiar with SharePoint, and the small cost included a public facing site. I just pointed the bhaven.org URL to the SharePoint URL and built the site there. Problem solved, or so I thought.

I ran the site that way for several years. It was convenient, though the tools were a little limited. Then recently I got an email from Microsoft telling me that they would no longer support public facing sites in SharePoint. There was no other obvious option inside MS 365 that I could see.

Lucky for me ipower.com updated it's tool suite. So here I am rebuilding this website using "free" tools included with my ipower account. Their site hosting options are quite affordable and generous with email accounts and site storage space. Unfortunately, that means I will need to repost here the content I built on MS 365. This means for the next few weeks there will be a rush of old content. It will post here as if it was new. For context, I'll add a note in each post about when it was originally available in the MS 365 space.

I doubt anyone is really reading any of this stuff anyway. If you are, I'm sorry you are putting up with my less-than-interesting ramblings. Thanks for somehow finding at least something of value in the posts to burn your time on them. One advantage to this switch is that this tool is actually a blog tool. Unlike the other location, readers can actually comment. Knock yourself out.