Objectives

The second part is to explore what is currently available.

Here are two of my websites, free from WebMD and Medscape. (You will learn more about this in the next section.) 

Check them out to see how you can make a first-order website:

DavidLNelsonMD (WebMD)

DavidLNelsonMD (Medscape)

These are the websites of some of the authors of this Guide. This gives you an idea of what you can do with a more sophisticated site:

Mel Heiman

Charles Eaton, MD

Myles Clough, MD, DPhil

Here are some arbitrarily selected physician websites:

(to be added; if you have a website, please let me know.

These sites should give you an idea of what is possible, so start your design from here. Sketch it out on paper. Be sure to plan well, especially with navigation and links. There are essentially two ways to do a site: once right, or many times over and over again until you do it right. It is much easier to plan well from the start. Ask me how I know.

Do you have a physician website? Let me know about it and it may help me to make this chapter better. 

Also, please send your comments about this chapter of the Orthopedist's Guide to the Internet to David Nelson. Thank you.