Making a website
Websites are made with a code called HTML (Hyper Text Mark-up Language). All code goes between < > brackets, while normal text can simply be written as you want it. A / before a word in a bracket means the end of that particular command. For example, look at the header code below. To create and edit HTML you need an editor such as notepad, which is standard with Microsoft Windows, so everyone should have it. All code on this page can simply be cut and pasted into the HTML of your web page. All you need to do is to change the CAPITOL LETTER bits to the names that suit you.
To start off, you need the header. Below is a standard header that is used in most websites. All you need to do is replace PAGE TITLE to the actual title of the page, BACKGROUND.IMAGE to the image name that will be your background, such as back.jpg or backgrnd.gif and change COLOR to a color of your choice.
<html>
<head><title>PAGE TITLE</title></head>
<body background="BACKGROUND.IMAGE"
text="COLOR" link="COLOR">
Text is automatically placed at the left of the screen. To put it to the center of the screen, use this command before writing.
<center>
To make the text go back to the left, simply add a / before the word center
</center>
Line and paragraph breaks are easy. Simple write a block of text or put in an image and use:
<br>
in the text as a line break. Or use
<p>
as a paragraph break, then continue writting or putting in images....etc.
To make horizontal lines appear on the screen, like the ones dividing up the sections on this page, use the command:
<hr>
To include images on your page, use this code and replace IMAGE.NAME with the actual name of the image that you want to show.
<img src="IMAGE.NAME">
To use an image as a link button, use this code and replace the appropriate parts.
<a href="LOCATION/ OF/ PAGE"><img
src="IMAGE.NAME" border=0></a>
The border part determines the size of the border around the image. Personally, I think these look crap, so I always put =0. But you can use any number between 0 and 9 for the border, depending on how wide you want it.
To use text as a link, (to visit another page for example), use this code and replace the appropriate parts.
<a href="LOCATION/ OF/ PAGE"> YOUR TEXT
HERE</a>
Saving your page
It's best to make a new folder on your computer, using file manager or the MY COMPUTER icon on the desktop and call it "website" or something like that.
Write your code in notepad. When you've finished choose SAVE from the FILE menu on notepad. You must save your first page as index.htm
On the web, a computer automatically opens the index.htm file when you type in the website address, so it is important that your first page is called index.htm. Pages after that can be called whatever you want. Though they cannot be more than eight letters in length and must always end in .htm
Uploading your pages and images
You need to use an FTP (File Transfer Protocol) to upload your pages and images to the web server that you're on. I recommend TRIPOD or XOOM as servers.
I have a FTP programme that you can download from this page and use to upload your pages.
Download FTP programe
You'll need to decompress the programe with an unzipping tool like "WinZip".
USEFUL TIP: Text files (.htm) are uploaded as ASCII and images and sound are uploaded as BINARY.
Well, that's it. If anyone needs any help, e-mail me at radskate@yahoo.com Good luck.
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