How To Build Your Own Website
Here is the beginning of how to build your own web pages (called a site).
Primary Questions:
o. What's a home page?
It's a starting out point of a Web site, similar to a table of contents page in a book. Every site on the Web has a home page that tells you what you'll find inside. If you see a place that you want to go, simply click the links and away you go.
o. What are links?
Link is short for hypertext link or hyperlink. You'll quickly recognize a link when you visit a Web page because it's usually a phrase or image that stands out from the rest of the text and graphics on the page. For example, a link might be an underlined word or an icon that is set apart from the rest of the information on the page. Links connect you to other pages or places in a Web site. Simply move your mouse pointer over any highlighted word, phrase or image that you think is a link. If the word, phrase or image is a link, the on-screen pointer (which usually looks like an arrow) will change to a pointing finger. Another way to tell if you found a hyperlink is to look at the gray message bar at the bottom on the Navigator window. When your pointer is pointing to a link, you'll see the corresponding page's URL.
o. What's a URL?
URL is short for universal resource locator also known as a Web address. Every place on the Web has an address or URL. For example, http://www.netscape.com is the URL for Netscape's home page. The URL will appear in the Location box located beneath the toolbar.
o. What is the "http?"
The "http" stands for Hypertext Transfer Protocol. Most URLs follow this format: http://www.name.com. It's always followed by a colon (:) and a double slash (//). Secure servers use the https protocol. Look for the added s before the colon when submitting sensitive information like credit card numbers.
Most ISP's provide you with web site space in which to place your web pages and may provide you with help in building your first web page.
There are many other Free web sites. If you're planning a pretty simple site and don't care about a lot of customization, you might look into one of the free services available. Most of these insist on putting some kind of advertising on your web site though. Also you won't be able to have your own domain name. On the plus side, setting up and maintaining such a web site is pretty easy and fast. Before committing yourself, shop around and explore as many choices as possible.
Here are some of the inexpensive or free services you can check out:
Web site creation tools fall into two categories. WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editors and HTML editors. WYSIWYG editors are much more graphical. You don't really need to deal with HTML at all, although it's better if you know enough HTML to make minor changes if necessary. HTML editors let you take much more control of the HTML. Some site designers prefer this because they feel WYSIWYG editors generate cumbersome HTML that causes pages to load too slowly.
Here are some of the more popular programs you can check out:
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Have you ever wanted to put your pictures on the internet so you could tell people where to go to see your pictures?
Here is a download program that will make you a web page with your pictures in small form and when clicked on show the big picture. Go here: http://www.ornj.net/
Of course, you will have to find a dot com that will allow you to put up your web site. Go here: Website If you notice, I tend to use Geocities for my web sites.
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