Introduction

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Web Site for Dummies - Got Web?

1) Setting up YOUR Computer: Go to Windows Explorer (Explorer.exe)-in the Windows folder-Usually link in Start/programs-also (windows key+E), My computer -C Click (hilight) your C drive (or your main drive where Windows is installed) Make a folder (File/ new/folder) Name it Sites. Now select this folder (double click) Click File/new/folder - Type "Files" and again: File/new/folder - Type "Folders" Put 2 folders (inside/under) this Sites-folder: Files - This will hold all of your web site files Folders - you make a new folder every time you have a new "project" - Your first project will be your first web page. Make a new folder under folders named "First".

2) We're going to look at HTML - Hypertext Mark-up Language, the language of the Web. A web page is viewed in a browser like Internet Explorer or Netscape to name two. An HTML tag is a text string used in the HTML document to identify a page element's type, format, and appearance so that a Web browser will know how to display it. Each tag appears inside brackets (<>). For example, the 'strong' tag is used to create bold text. HTML written like this: This is how to create 'bold' text. Appears like this on your web page: This is how to create bold text. Every html page has at least 5 TAGS; Doctype, html, head, Title, and body. The Doctype tag goes first and stands alone. This tells the browser that the page is an html file that will include certain properties or html versions. The remaining tags occur in pairs. Every tag on an html page has an opening tag and a closing tag . Also , , and , .These 5 are required for each page but are not all. See link: Tags & Attributes for HTML Elements (tags) with Attributes. An attribute is a setting for a tag that affects the way the tag is displayed. For example, the paragraph tag "P", can be aligned on the page like so: "p align="left"".

Each HTML tag/element has attributes: For instance The Table element/Tag has many attributes. (see below) ALIGN, WIDTH=number, BORDER, BORDER=number,CELLPADDING=number, CELLSPACING=number, BGCOLOR="colorname"&"#rrggbb",BORDERCOLOR="colorname", BORDERCOLORLIGHT="colorname", BORDERCOLORDARK="colorname", VALIGN="valign", CLEAR=clear, NOFLOW, COLSPEC=colspec, UNITS=units, DP="character", NOWRAP These work together to adjust the table within the web page.

3) View/Source - Public Domain - You can learn everything you need to know about HTML in two words: View source. Some would say it's the only lesson you need to learn about Web publishing. Web pages all come with their own set of instructions, telling everyone who cares to look exactly how the site was constructed, no secrets here! This is how it works: The Web's creator allows you to view the source code (in other words, the HTML document that dictates what the page looks like) of any page on the Web. So any time you're wondering "How did they do that?" all you have to do is select "View Source" from the browser menu (usually the menu name is "View," and the option is "Document Source" ), and the HTML file will open - usually using SimpleText or whatever word-processing software you have on your machine. Once the file is open, you can save it, study it, cut and paste from it, anything you want. Well, almost anything - you can't actually change the code so that it alters the page, since you're just viewing a copy of the file, not the file itself.

4) Go to the GSSVC Website - Click on the Web button - and a new page of links comes up with the title - Rootsweb free web space Click the #1) link: Request a Web Space Account/Freepages Accounts The page: RootsWeb Agreement for Freepages Web Space Accounts is displayed. Read and click "I agree". A new Page is displayed: Request a Freepages Web Space Account from RootsWeb Fill out this page: Some info to ponder below: Please enter your real name - FIRST and LAST (any request without both will be deleted): Please list your email address: PLEASE NOTE: Your account name will become part of your URL, as in http://freepages.communityname.rootsweb.com/~acctname/. Account name must be at least 4 characters long and must consist only of lower case letters and numbers, but may not begin with a number. No spaces or characters (such as - _ / . ') are allowed. Select your account name carefully as names of accounts can NOT be changed and you may not close an account and open a new one. A name for your account: Required: Tell us what you plan to use this account for: ("My personal homepage" is NOT an answer. Your request will be deleted with no notice if you do not specify.) Please allow 3-5 working days for your request to be processed. Click 'submit' to send your information.