And despite the effort, the time and the hassles, it was definitely worth it. We expected some technological hassles, and we found them. But learning to program a simple Web site turned out not to be among them. But when some friends tried to view it, their computers froze. The Web site problem under control, we then looked into digital cameras.
Digital cameras save images on internal memory chips or on floppy disks instead of on film.
Our initial priority was a camera that took the best photos, since we had heard that digital image quality wasn't as crisp as film's. But after we bought it we realized that in order to get the pictures onto our Web page, we'd have to install special software on our computer. Time to reprioritize. Thus we could capture for Libbie Israel's sights, like a nighttime view of the Western Wall and Dome of the Rock, as well as its sounds, like a muezzin's call to prayer and the competing religious chants echoing in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Teaching Libbie to use a computer.