Promises and perils of digitalhistory -- Exploring thehistoryweb -- Getting started: the nature of websites, and what you will need to create yours -- Becoming digital: preparing historical materials for theweb -- Designing for thehistoryweb -- Building an audience -- Collecting history online -- Owning thepast? Thedigital historians guideto copyright and intellectual property -- Preservingdigitalhistory: what we can do today to help tomorrow's historians -- Some final thoughts -- Appendix: Database software, scripting languages ,and XML