ROBIN'S WEB PAGE LESSONS
I will show you how to get started on making a web page. I will also start you out on how to add pictures,clipart, backgrounds, sound, graphs, forms,and various other ways of making your web page interesting and easy to navigate! This will be fun and easy so pour yourself a cup of coffee and let's get started!

LESSON ONE
First of all, you will have to get some web space...this is called web hosting! You can go to places like http://www.yahoo.com to get FREE web space!
Now, if you want your "OWN .COM" you will need to buy a domain name and then get web hosting also...http://www.yahoo.com can also do this for you. I believe it would be the cheapest way to go...they have 3 different hosting packages all with your own domain name. But look around on your own...I don't want to steer you wrong! Do a search on your favorite search engine, you may come up with a better deal!

LESSON TWO

Now then, the second thing to do is starting to write in html...very Easy! Just some people like to use all that computer language that will scare the normal type person away! First find your Windows NotePad text editor. Open your Windows NotePad text editor. The best thing to do is start with understanding what the different tags to use are. When you begin a web page the first thing you type is: when you end the page you will type is the command which prepares your browser to read the HTML language. Just in case you're wondering, HTML stands for hyper-text-markup-language . Now,use your text editor and type in the command to begin html. Now for the tricky part. Inside your text editor, click on FILE SAVE AS Select a directory where you will save your school files. Once you have selected a directory on your drive, you must give the file a name to save it by. Let's name this file: one.htm Remember you must type in the .htm yourself or your text editor will save it as a .txt file and you want it saved as a .htm file. Now you type in: **** when you end your heading you will type in This is where you will type in your page's title... So now lets add: Robin's Lesson Two Then type in: So your page should now look like this: Robin's Lesson Two

Now we will begin the body of your web page by typing in: This is where all the neat stuff goes into! The body command is the command that will tell the browser how to format the page. Your text colors, background colors and background files will be named within your body command. But for our first webpage we're going to use the unnamed default values for everything except the background color. There are two ways to format background colors on your page. One way is by use of text words such as, red, black, white, orange, pink, green, purple, blue, lime, etc. The other method is done by using hexidecimal color codes. The command for background color is bgcolor="colorhere" . Remember that the background color command must be placed WITHIN the boundaries of the 'body' command, like so:

LESSON THREE

is the largest 'heading' text command.

is the smallest 'heading' text command.

Any text appearing after a heading text command will display on the webpage in the heading size indicated. Thus a large heading command in front of the word Welcome, like so

Welcome! would display as : WELCOME!
The
is a 'break' command. What this does is command a 'drop to the next line of the document for display purposes. In the following sentence I have inserted a break command after the word 'Drop' Drop to the next line. Without the break command, the sentence would, of course display as: Drop to the next line. When typing a long sentence or paragraph, (such as this one), the text will automatically break to the next line without your help (depending on the width of the screen or page). But, knowing and using the break command will allow you to have more control of how it will look.

Open the browser of your choice and prepare to type text into your browser 'location bar'. That is the place where normally you would type a web address that you plan to visit. Rather than typing a world wide web address into your location bar, we are going to type the location on one of your DRIVES in which you have stored your one.htm file. For example, if you created a directory on your main harddrive called "school", you would type the following into your location bar: C:/School/one.htm If your file is stored on a floppy disk, you would type the following: A:/one.htm Where ever you have chosen to store your one.htm document, you can get to it using your browser by beginning with the drive letter (such as C) followed by a colon ( : ), followed by slash [ / ], followed by the name of the directory (if any), followed by the name of the file (one.htm).

The center command will align (or place) your content ACROSS the center of your page. Welcome The left command will align your content along the left side of your page. The left-side alignment is the default setting. That means when you have not commanded otherwise the page will automatically be displayed with a left-side alignment. Welcome The right command will 'supposedly' align your content along the right side of the page. I personally have yet to see that happen except in a very specified table area, but at least you know what it's for. I rarely if ever use it. STOP! The alignment commands (left, right, center) will generally require a STOP sign at the point in which you wish to input a different alignment. For example, you might want the heading of your webpage to be centered nicely, but to have your paragraph content move back to a left alignment status. In order to do that you will need to insert a stop command. A stop sign generally begins with /. Here is a stop-sign-center :
The other stop-sign-alignments are: and

LESSON FOUR

OK,Now we're getting to the fun part,IMAGES! The command to place an image or graphic on your webpage is : Remember to upload your image file to your web space!

LESSON FIVE

There are 3 basic steps to produce a hyper-link. The first step will be the hyper command and the location to which you are linking: Following the command brackets for the location of the hyperlink you would place the text that you wish to be hyperlinked to that address: Text to Link And finally you would place a hyperlink stop-sign command after the text. Text to Link

LESSON SIX

The final commands on your web document are stop signs. Stop body command, stop html command. Too Easy. You are done! Did you have fun? Of course you did!!!!! Now go to the next pages for other stuff to learn!