Creating
a Web Site
Most ISPs (internet service providers)
offer free space for personal webpages, usually 5-20
MB. Some have tools for building a
site. My ISP is www.earthlink.com
charges $19.95 for unlimited internet access per month and allows 20MB of storage
for personal Web/FTP space and other features.
If you are going to use MS FrontPage, ask your prospective webhost if they have FrontPage extension available for when
you upload your website to the world wide web.
You may need to have more
than one idea in mind in case your first choice is already used for someone
else. www.registrars.com will tell you if your
“name” is available.
FrontPage is about
$150.00. Whether you’re creating a
personal or business Web page, this will give you tools that you need to create
and manage or maintain your site exactly the way you want it to
be. It provides a wizard to assist or
just give you ideas for your custom designed site. FrontPage has a WYSIWYG (“What you see is
what you get”) format with easy-to-add hyperlinks, graphics, thumbnail images,
frames, search forms, table of contents, hit counters,
and numbered or bulleted listing. We
will look at some of these components today.
www.registrars.com is where you can
choose and register a domain name. The
cost is $60.00 for 2 years. They will
send you email notification when it is time to renew the registration.
www.iEntry.com will send free newsletters, such as, WebProNews, with helps for building business websites.
www.WebSiteGarage.com offers a free
1-page tune up by analyzing your site for errors. It gives ratings in areas regarding: browser
compatibility, load time, dead links, HTML design, and gives some suggestions.
www.isgcomm.com is my current webhost. They charge
$14.95 per month.
HTML Color Chart is available
at http://www.maran.com/colorchart/
(Use Internet Explorer for viewing these colors. The colors do not seem to work in
Netscape) These color codes can be
entered in to your site to choose the webpage colors for the background, text,
links, to accent a word or phrase or title. The book “Teach Yourself FrontPage
2000 was $30.00. They also publish
EXCELLENT how-to VISUAL books on many computer programs
www.viagrafix.com is a site that produces
step-by-step videos for various software programs.
www.cnet.com
gives reviews for software programs to help you compare
If I can help answer any questions, you can email me sonmfg@iag.net My name is LaVon
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