Thing to remember when putting togeather a website...

Frist start with the HTML, or the skeleton of your Web page. Learn to use cut&paste and how to copy. (click right on this link to see more on how to copy.) Once you can copy, link here and copy the examples given into a document of some kind and print out a hardcopy. Or keep it handy on your pc in a notepad or clipboard program.

When Adding Images

You will either be selecting from clip art and stock photos, or scanning your own. All graphics take up LOTS more memory then text. (links count as text.) Keep the following in mind.

• Save line art in .GIF format, photos in .JPG format.

• Always scan and save Web graphics at 72 DPI (dots per inch -- the setting is in your scanning software).

• Size matters: Size pictures to a maximum 300-pixel-width square.

These Things are Bad Ideas

• Background graphics and black backgrounds. Both are used poorly by most people. They can also be used brilliantly, but leave them off your public pages until you can do just that.

• Multiple fonts. Font mixing is a fine art. Stick to defaults and you'll stay out of trouble.

• Frames. Leave this one to the advanced Web designers. Most of the time even they can't get it right.

• Animations. Well, you can use one nice one per page. But please don't mix it with anything else that flashes, blinks, or moves.

Uploading the Page (Getting the page from your pc to the web.)

To post to the Web, you'll need FTP software. Your Internet service provider (ISP) might have given you some. Or go directly to the GeoCities File Manager for more information on editing. OR Use a disc to hold your files and borrow the libraries' pc.

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Copying text from the Web: If you've never tried copying from the Web, click your mouse right here on the text, then hold down the button as you start moving the mouse. The text should become highlighted as the cursor moves over it. When you have a chunk of text selected, either use your keyboard -- Ctrl + C (press the two keys simultaneously) -- or, from the Edit menu in Internet Explorer, click Copy. This will copy the text to the Clipboard (a part of your operating system that you can't see). Move to another application, such as Word, and paste the selection into a document. (Using your keyboard, it's Ctrl + V; using the mouse, click the Edit menu and choose Paste.) You can paste text that you copy from the Web just about anywhere -- into e-mail, into spreadsheets, into databases, into just about any application you might be using.
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