| CIY ADULT ELECTIVE Using the Web in your ministry TN1 - Milligan conference HOW TO START YOUR OWN YOUTH GROUP WEB PAGE FOR FREE! USING YAHOO PAGE BUILDER 1. OPEN UP A FREE E-MAIL ACCOUNT WITH YAHOO. Go to www.Yahoo.com and visit the "Mail" link under the connect section at the top of the page. follow the instructions to get an e-mail account. 2. After you have an accont, sign on to your e-mail account. 3. Now visit this link http://geocities.yahoo.com/home You can use Yahoo page wizzards (ofers pre-fab formats and asks you for the info or pictures) or Yahoo Page builders (you decide what goes where, this is a java Appelet program and will take a few min. to load up on your computer) THINGS YOU CAN DO WITH PAGE BUILDER a. Add text boxes - keep the text of your page in as few boxes as possible as text boxes seem to float around (up and down) a bit. b. Add pictures to the page - keep pictures and graphics to a min. the more info you have on a page the longer it takes to load c. Make links to.... web pages other pages on your site e-mail links other files on your site (PDF FILES) d. Put Add-On's on your page (just play around with it to find out what they are) Basics Page Effects Fun and Games Animation Instant Info Interactive Headlines Yahooligans Forms and Scripts e. You can layer the items on your page to get the effect you want. Just choose :"Format from the drop down list and then "Page properties". Check the "Layerd HTML" box in the page size area. ***ADDS ON THE GEOCITIES/YAHOO PAGE. *A drop down add box will show up on your pages. You can keep this from showing up by putting a Geocities add banner on your page from the "Add-Ons" area. This too is advertising that is uncrontolled by you. *For a fee of $4.95/month you can keep all adds from your pages |