How to make your own web page
Topic 5 · 18 responses · archived october 2000
~terry
Sun, Sep 22, 1996 (08:13)
seed
Here's a place to share tips and tricks about creating your own webpage.
Really it's not rocket science. If you know to word process and have a
net connection you can do it. It takes all of ten minutes to make a
passable webpage if you know what you're doing. If you don't have a web
apge or want to experiment with one, contact the Spring
(mailto:terry@spring.com) and we'll help you get started with a webpage
on one of our servers.
Sooo, let's take the mystery out of web pages.
~Tom
Fri, Oct 25, 1996 (13:36)
#1
Hi Terry,
This must be a new site, it's soooo empty. I found this place via Stroud's, while looking for the 32bit GNNPress. I'm interested in setting up my site and found FrontPage a real hopeless mess. After 4 hours on it, I still can't figure it out well enough to do much else than run a Wizard - even that can't run a search or a register service. Bummer, I'm going back to GNNPress.
If you've got some ideas on using FP, I'd be appreciative, but for now, it's history.
Ciao,
Tom
~arch1234
Tue, Dec 10, 1996 (23:48)
#2
I am interesting in having my own web page.If U can help me,PLEASE do it so...
~terry
Wed, Dec 11, 1996 (06:53)
#3
Email me with the username and pasword that you want!
mailto://terry@spring.com
~folkartist
Sat, Feb 22, 1997 (22:00)
#4
Terry, I would love to have a web page, but I am having trouble e-mailing you.
I am going to try it again.
~terry
Sat, Feb 22, 1997 (23:59)
#5
Got your email, will get something set up for you.
~terry
Sun, Nov 8, 1998 (10:16)
#6
There are several good html training pages on the web.
Here's one that's been around that I haven't checked out for a while. Can
someone learning html check it out and tell me if it's valuable or not?
http://www.transaction.net/web/tutor/
There are also:
http://www.webacademy.com
and
http://www.webmonkey.com
And this astonishingly long URL.
http://dir.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Internet/World_Wide_Web/Information_and_Documentation/Beginner_s_Guides/Beginner_s_HTML/
Other resources (may be some overlap with list at Yahoo):
http://webreference.com/html/tutorial1/
http://www.webdeveloper.com/categories/html/beginners_html.html
http://www.hotwired.com/webmonkey/reference/ -- crib sheet
http://www.december.com/html/
And there may be more. Anyone else have any favorites? Anyone learning
html and will to give a critique of any of these?
~KitchenManager
Wed, Nov 11, 1998 (15:21)
#7
the first one is intriguing enough for me
to go back later for a more in-depth look...
~MarciaH
Sat, Nov 20, 1999 (12:31)
#8
With what I have been through this week trying to set up the UHHilo's Booster
news web page, I am ready to read almost anything which will enable me.
What I really need is someone walking me through a few of the rough patches.
(Yes, I know...No one helped you!)
~terry
Mon, Nov 22, 1999 (09:19)
#9
What's the url, I'll take a look.
~MarciaH
Mon, Nov 22, 1999 (14:24)
#10
http://www.uhh.hawaii.edu/~athletic/fundraisers/index.html
I am going to work on it some more shortly. Gonna put the BIIBT tournament logo on and the scheduled games for the first day.
~MarciaH
Mon, Nov 22, 1999 (14:28)
#11
Be aware, it is fairly plain. I wanted a textured white background, but our Athletic Director did not, and it is reallly for him that I am doing it. He approved of it in a phone call from Maui (he's at the invitational.) He wants it to be printable and to eventually take the place of the mail outs we have been doing. Worst of all, I am taking over from John, who is so gifted in writing especially about sports...Mine will be almost exclusively informational and terse.
~terry
Tue, Nov 23, 1999 (00:11)
#12
It's your good, basic information page.
~MarciaH
Tue, Nov 23, 1999 (13:49)
#13
...just as the AD requested. *sigh* I much prefer creating and posting and beautifying with Yapp software. I never appreciated it quite as much until I tried the cold cruel world out there. The University is using very basic software to which I am not privy...yet! (Gotta make my webmaster earn his scholarship!)
Some day when you are feeling like adventure, try Geo Conference with Windows. Lots of good stuff in there regularly visited by the faithful (updating wx maps seem to be a favorite)...please?!
~wolf
Thu, Feb 10, 2000 (20:24)
#14
TERRY HELP!!!!!
k, i cannot possibly be the only person with this question.
since my domain is stored at http://www.spring.net/bayou/index.html, how on earth do i tell folks to visit http://www.midnightwolf.net without having to type in the other stuff? is there a way to forward midnightwolf stuff to my bayou spot (and i don't mean hyperlinking as in within an html page).....
~wolf
Thu, Feb 10, 2000 (20:25)
#15
(and the first link doesn't work either)
~wolf
Thu, Feb 10, 2000 (20:26)
#16
and neither does the second *frown*
i'm sorry, but i am frustrated.
~MarciaH
Thu, Feb 10, 2000 (21:07)
#17
Geez, Wolfie, Terry has not gotten back to you yet??? Wonder if he is OK...
~MarciaH
Mon, Jul 10, 2000 (16:25)
#18
HOW TO BUILD A WEB PAGE IN 25 STEPS
1. Download a piece of Web authoring software ~ 20
minutes.
2. Think about what you want to write on your Web
page ~ 6 weeks.
3. Download the same piece of Web authoring software,
because they have released 3 new versions since the
first time you downloaded it ~ 20 minutes.
4. Decide to just steal some images and awards to put
on your site ~ 1 minute.
5. Visit sites to find images and awards, find 5 of
them that you like ~ 4 days.
6. Run setup of your Web authoring software. After it
fails, download it again ~ 25 minutes.
7. Run setup again, boot the software, click all
toolbar buttons to see what they do ~ 15 minutes.
8. View the source of others' pages, steal some,
change a few words here and there ~ 4 hours.
9. Preview your Web page using the Web Authoring software ~ 1 minute.
10. Try to horizontally line up two related images ~ 6 hours.
11. Remove one of the images ~ 10 seconds.
12. Set the text's font color to the same color as your background, wonder why all your text is gone ~ 4 hours.
13. Download a counter from your ISP ~ 4 minutes.
14. Try to figure out why your counter reads "You are
visitor number 16.3 E10" ~ 3 hours.
15. Put 4 blank lines between two lines of text ~ 8 hours.
16. Fine-tune the text, then prepare to load your Web
page on your ISP ~ 40 minutes.
17. Accidentally delete your complete web page ~ 1 second.
18. Recreate your web page ~ 2 days.
19. Try to figure out how to load your Web page onto your ISP's
server ~ 3 weeks.
20. Call a patient friend to find out about FTP ~ 30 minutes.
21. Download FTP software ~ 10 minutes.
22. Call your friend again ~ 15 minutes.
23. Upload your web page to your ISP's server ~ 10 minutes.
24. Connect to your site on the web ~ 1 minute.
25. Repeat any and all of the previous steps ~ eternity -