Tips For Making Websites

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There are basically two ways to make a web page. The first way is to create the page(s) offline and then upload them to your Internet Service Provider (ISP) via FTP. The second way is to create your web page(s) online using a Telnet program by accessing your UNIX account, if you have one.
If you are creating your web page(s) offline, do so in any text editing or word processing document. Make sure that when you save your document, you save it as a "text", "plain text" or "text only" document. Otherwise it will not be read properly by a web browser. Once you have created your page(s), you will need to contact your ISP about how to go about uploading them to your server.
If you have a UNIX account, you can create your web page(s) online. You first need to get a program that can access your UNIX account. I recommend Telnet for t he mac or ewan for Windows 95/98.
When you make a link, you are making colored text or even a graphic when somebody clicks on this text, it will take them to another web page, or possibly a certain section of a web page. Sometimes, you might want to have a link that will take you further ...
... down a page, or to a certain section of another page. An example of this is the index to this web page. You click on the colored text, and it takes you to that section. To do this, you need to do two things. The first is to make the link, and the second, is to make where the link will lead to.
On almost every web page on the net, there is some kind of graphic There are mainly two kinds of ways to have graphics on your web page. The first, is to use a graphic that is on another web page somewhere on the web. The second is to upload the graphic to your own account.