In 1998, after conquering his middle-aged writer's fears of technology, Xiang Yang read a few books on web design before setting up his own personal website: "Workshop of Xiang Yang." He hoped to use the Internet to break through territorial, ethnic and even ideological barriers, building a new model for disseminating the literature of Taiwan.
1998 年，靠著幾本網頁設計書的引導，再排除了中年文人對電腦網路與未知挑戰的畏懼，向陽建置了個人網站「向陽工坊」，希望透過網路突破國界、疆域、種族乃至意識型態的藩籬，在台灣文壇樹立了相當新穎的文學傳播典範。