Creating an online memorial to Diana

2006 December 15

Created by Millie 17 years ago
It was my grandson, little Nathaniel, who originally suggested that I setup an online tribute to Diana. He is extraordinary with computers. His hands fly about the keyboard like socks on a washing line flapping in a gale. He has got me all plugged in and using the internet over the last few years, which I greatly enjoy (except when website owners use extremely small fonts not entirely legible for us "silver surfers"!). I have made many friends, found out some extremely interesting and quite odd things and I now am quite au fait with using emails (although I do occasionally send some to the wrong person; which drives Nathaniel positively insane). He has even tried to school me in creating web pages but I feel this is beyond me, but talking to him about the internet I felt I wanted to setup a lasting tribute to Diana. She has increasingly become a heroine of mine; a people's Princess who did not enjoy a fairy tale life. Nathaniel felt this would be too complicated for me to do on my own from scratch and I am inclined to agree (and was secretly very relieved!). And so, together, we set about researching to see if there were any online memorial services that offered the chance to build an online memorial, in a way that some one like me could manage, but one that I could still make look and feel how I wanted. It was a tall order and I didn't hold out much hope at first!