From its outset in 1996, Sunline's focus has been on building an interactive electronic community from the ground up. Sunline put up Web pages for all clubs, organizations, musicians, nonprofits and government agencies in the community. Next it sponsored computer classes for local residents on topics like chat and online games. Sunline waited six months into the process to put the Port Charlotte, Sarasota and Fort Meyers papers online. But that's just for starters.
Members can post photos of babies, kids, pets and cars.
An area called Written Wisdom lets people put up their favorite quotes, everything from Plato to cute things their children say, and it's already received hundreds of entries. Internet 101, a beginner's guide to using the Web. Members can even write their own goodbyes and have their attorneys post their parting words and an audio farewell of up to an hour. My hope is that, over time, this becomes a place not of sadness but of happiness and life and memory. The business and legal affairs daily has a print circulation of 14,000 while its online counterpart, The Source, records 2 million page views per month.