To make your own Web page, you need three things. First, you need someone to host your page. Geocities will do that for free. Second, you should have a bunch of colorful electronic pictures to titilate your visitors. They are a jaded bunch and will only respond to gobs of eye candy -- the full text of your favorite novel won't cut it.
Finally, you need the web document itself. This is a text file with a name like index.html that tells the user's browser what text to display and where to find the pictures. HTML (hypertext markup language) is nearly human readable. It consists of the text of the page with "tags" to indicate pictures and special effects. Here is some html:
<img src="MOUSE.GIF">Here is a swell picture of a mouse.<br> To check the price of a frozen rodent at the Mouse House, click <a href="http://www.designwest.com/MouseHouse/rodent.html"> here</a>.
This html will look as follows on the Web page.
Here is a swell picture of a mouse.
How does it work?
The "img src" tag names a file that is an image source. At the end
of the first line is a line break (<br>). At the end of the
second line is a hypertext reference to another Web page.
Simple!
A more complete html tutorial is available
next door.