I started the Questeria.info website in 2005, shortly after purchasing Questeria. I wanted to share our experiences as new boaters, but I also wanted to learn how to build a website from scratch. I wrote most of the source in HTML using the VIM editor, but I wrote some of the pages, like the journals,  in Microsoft Word, and saved them as HTML.

I hosted the website on an old PC, running Linux. It was sitting in a spare bedroom of my house in Raleigh, NC. When we started getting ready to sell our house and move aboard Questeria, I realized this would not work, so I started hosting the website on ipower.com.

I kept the website up to date until 2009, and then I slacked-off and didn’t make many updates for a while.  I retired in 2012 and after about a year I made time to update the website again.

One of the first things I did was rewrite all the html code to be mobile friendly, and resize based on screen width. I also added new photos and entered information from my log book into journals 4 and 5.

In March of 2014 we started a trip from the FL keys to NC, so I started Journal 6, using Microsoft Word. I tried to make the journal more “blog-like” than the others, but I quickly realized some of the limitations. It is difficult to update; Every time I made a change, I had to upload the main file plus every file in the folder that Word uses. Also, nobody could comment on an entry.

Then, I discovered WordPress. I saw it was easy to install on my existing website, so I decided to try it. It is easier to make updates— I can even send updates by email. I can categorize my posts, and readers can make comments on them. So here it is, let me know what you think.