I rehired a girl here in China to help me port over the trip reports from my old Gore Range site to the new one.  I used the same effective technique:  Create a special page that described the job and (here’s the key) created a screencast that showed how to do the job.  A “screencast” is basically a video of your computer screen showing what you’re doing on the computer.  I created the one for this job with Windows Media Encoder 9, which has problems (of course), but is at least free.  I’ll be upgrading to Camtasia as soon as I get my new laptop (going to pick it up in Hong Kong early next week!)  They’re running a $99 promotion now for their new version for the Mac.

The screencast is a powerful tool.  My assistant was convinced that this job, using WordPress, etc. was too complex for her.  I told her to just give it a try for a couple of them.  Now, she’s cranking them out in a matter of minutes.

Total price for the website port:  $15

My adventures in the Cascades are next.  That’s a much bigger site.  Maybe I’ll even create a site for my fourteener trip reports.