Creating a Web Page
To create your very own web page, it's a good idea to have a teenage son in the home. Scientists don't know why, but every teenage boy is born knowing how to program VCRs and CD players. This is pretty much the same thing. They just know how. If you don't have such a person available when you get the urge to create a web page, then you can try to follow my feeble attempt to explain how I made all my pages. When you're successful at getting on the 'Net, drop me a line so I can be among the first to enjoy it.
First, in my mind, there are 3 parts to a web page: 1) Message 2) Construction 3) Design. You have to have something to say, like "My grandchildren are the best in the world", or "Buy my Widgets", or "Me Tarzan: You Jane". Every web page is about something. Be thinking about that.
Then, you have to have a way to make the thing. So download Arachnophilia from the link below to a place where you can access it, like C:\ . (Have teenage boy show you.) Then read the tutorial and helps. At first it might seem like reading a foreign language, but gradually things will start dawning on you. Arachnophilia does much of the thinking for you, and I was able to create a simple page on my first try. Html is a simple programming language used to make the web pages, and after fiddling with it for awhile you'll see the organization and logic of it. You'll catch on like I did. You also need a program called ftp, which is what takes your html code and uploads it to the Internet. There are free downloads of various different ones, such as the ones at Download.com, so get one of those and save it to a place where you can find it and use it. I have Arachnophilia and FTP in my start menu because I use them so much.
Now, by way of design, you want to put cool photos or animated images or nifty fonts on your page that will enhance people's enjoyment of it. Think of a style you like, such as Victorian, or Art Deco, or patriotic, or your hobby, etc. (Teenage boy is of no use here.) When you're surfing the 'Net, pay attention to the backgrounds, graphics and fonts other people are using. If it doesn't infringe on the copyrights of that site, you can right click your mouse on a background or object and save it to a file you create just for your web page-creating stuff. At the bottom of their page is often a logo and link to the original artist, so you can go there and download images too. I keep my found goodies in a folder I made called 'Webpics'. I only save things in there I may use on web pages. When you see a font you like you can't just click the mouse and get it, but you can right click the mouse button and select 'view source'. (Teenage boy.) This will open that page's html code which will include the name of the font. It might say "font face="arial"", for example. Utilize my list of links to find the most wonderful pictures, fonts, and advice. If you don't like anything you see in my links, then check out the bazillion others through search engines. Then you tweak, double-tweak and retweak your pages over and over, and it becomes all you can think about, all you talk about, all you want to do, and you make web pages about everything you can think of, like your surgeries, your grandmother, your yo-yo collection and a whole lot more! You create AND become a monster in one easy step!
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