Have an idea of what you want to place on your page and what you want your page to look like before you begin building your page. Then work toward that goal.

What would you like on your page? Do you want graphics and music? How much do you have to put on your page? How many pages will it take? It may be a good idea to type or write out a basic layout of what you wish your web page to look like and how much you wish to place on your page to get an idea of the scope of your project. (Don't let that scare you! It can be done!)

After getting a general feel for your page you now should have an idea of how much space you may need to accomplish the task. To give you a clue to how much space is needed here is an example: 5 megs will contain the Old and New Testament without pictures or music, with little room to spare. That may seem like a lot of space, but if you like graphics and music then you will want more megs/room at your site. Don't become overly concerned if you run out of space while working on your page. Most servers provide additional upgrade membership for a small fee. Also the internet is a big place with lots of free space for more web pages. I have run out of space at three of my servers and have just gone on to another place and linked them together.

Latter on at this web site you will find HTML codes. You should be able to copy paste any of the following codes onto your web page and have them work. Then just deleat what I have in there and type in what you want between the codes.

To copy:
Place your mouse arrow before the text, click down and darken the area you want to copy. Then press down the other, 2ond, (another) button and find copy. Click copy. Go to where you want the text and push down the 2ond button again find paste and click that. You should see what you just copied. :) If not try again.

HTML codes are very fussy, if you make a space where a space should not be it will not work, if you leave out a space it will not work. If you write htpp instead of http or leave out letters, comas, " , #, / it will not work. At 3:00 A.M. it gets real frustrating. (Get some shut eye and try again later :) With HTML upper and lowercase is not so important you can put HTML or html and get the same result. But when you get into other code such as Java script then you need to be more consistant. So now that we have learned "Copy & Paste" we need a place to keep our information.

Someplace in your computer you should have a "note pad." The nice thing about a note pad is that you can keep little notes to yourself on it. My main addy is here "http://mypage.com", the exact name of that graphic I uploaded was "hometown.gif"... So that when you need the information it is handy, you can keep "note pad" in the tool bar (located down in the bar by the start button) when you arn't using it. Now practice putting some of these words onto your note pad.

Another thing that is handy to know is how to view the source. Ok where you saw "File then Edit..." click on "View" Then down to "Source". Another window will pop up and this will show you the code I used to make this page.

When you view the source, (don't let it scare you) you can see what I actually did to get the code on the page. I have used 3 tables to make up the page. I have tried to make it as basic as possible. Some times on web pages there will be long headers before you actually get to the beginning of the page. Here is a trick. In the pad that comes up find search then type in this </HEAD> that will usually bring you right to where you need to start looking. Also you can type in some words in the search from the page that you would like to find.

Viewing the Source can also come in very handy when you are working on your page or helping someone else with their page and you don't want to have to go into the file manager to see what is going on. It also comes in handy if say, you like a certain color on a page, then you can look and see what color they are using. Most html code is common knowledge, but some may be copy write or some may feel they don't wish to share the ideas on their page, in these cases it would not be nice to take their codes.

When searching for a place to make your web page look for the word "Browser". If you have 4.0 for your browser (Net Scape, Microsoft etc.) then you will be able to upload graphics, music and other things to your site from inside the "file manager" (where you will work on your web page).

How get a Graphic or Sound into your computer. There are many places on the internet where you can find free graphics. Be aware of copyrites and other factors. Also you can purchace graphics and graphic software at most stores.

From the internet:
1. On the graphic or midi Right click on your mouse. You will see a list to chose from. Pick "Save As" (save picture as, save background as, etc.)
2. When you click on "Save As" your file folder from your computer will pop up. As when you save a document. Select a folder to put the graphic or midi in (maybe make one called midi and one called graphic) and then push the save button. When you go look in your file you can look or hear what you have placed in there. (as long as it is suported by your computer).

A graphic to practice with:

And here is a midi to practice with:

Some servers offer so much space that they also provide sub directories. If you have a lot of pages to place on the server and this option is available I would highly recomend beginning to use them right away. On one server I had to redo my whole page because it could no longer load the information. Try separating 500 pages, graphics and music, and then changing the addys on each so that they would work. not fun :( But it only took about 2 weeks to have everything up and running again. Never panic. Everything I have ever encountered could be fixed! Rembember when using sub directories that you must have the right address (URL) so that your links will work.