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Computer Tips
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So, the first thing to do is to create a page for your site. If you have downloaded and installed Arachnophilia, you can create a page using this program. To do this, go to Start and Programs and then to Arachnophilia and click on it. The program will open to a black grey screen. Use the right mouse button to click on the grey area. A box will open and you should click on New HTML File. Another box will open asking you to name your page (just put "Sanjay Sood's main page" in the box. Now, it asks for some color choices. Select a background color by clicking on the bar, choosing a color from the pallette which opens, clicking OK, and that's it. Proceed with the text color, and the link colors. These will be used on the site to show people which links are active and which have been visited by them before. Be sure to pick colors which will be easy to read on the background color you chose. Click OK, and that box will be replaced by a white page with coding written on it. This is the beginnings of your page and will already have the color choices entered in numeric format. You will notice that the cursor is blinking. This is the spot where you will begin adding your own code. *********************** Since Netscape mail will convert my code examples into a finished page, you will not be able to see how to do the code. So, from now on in these letters, when I am doing code examples, wherever I use a ( ) it actually would be < > in real coding. ************************ First, you page needs a title. Most titles are centered. If you looked at your tutorial pages, you see that to center something you type in (center) then you need the size of the text font. For a main title, you will want something large. The largest is H1 and should be typed as (H1) As you can see, all commands to the computer are typed in ( ) with the words which will appear on the page typed normally. To "end" or "close" a command, you add a / to the command-- so it looks like this when you are done with the line (center)(H1)Title of Page(/H1)(/center) and you just put your own words where I have typed Title of Page. This will create your page title in large type in the center of the line. Next, you need some "content". This is usually a little about what the site will be about, or maybe some information about you. To do text, the easiest method is to use a table. A table is sort of complicated, but not if you go one step at a time. Remembering to use < where I use ( type the following: (table) (tr) (td) This begins a table. There are variations on this which you will learn later, but this is the most basic format. After the (td) you want to add something about the size of the text font. Standard is whatever the user has his browser set at. You can make your text larger or smaller by adding something at this point. To make it slightly larger, type (font size=+1) a little larger than that would be (font size=+2) Smaller than standard can be indicated by -1 or -2 in the code. So, selecting the one you want, add the code to the area right after the (td) code. It will look like this (table) (tr) (td)(font size=+2)And this is where you add your text information. Just type it in in normal format like you would a report or a letter. The only difference is that you indicate the end of a paragraph by adding (p) to the end of the paragraph. Indenting is accomplished with code you will learn later. When you come to the end of the information you want on the page, end your table by typing (/font)(/td) (/tr) (/table) To close the font indicator, you only need to use the word (/font) It is not necessary to add the size=+2 part. That is the end of this lesson. *smile* I will now prepare a lesson concerning "lifting" a gif (that means how to pick up a picture from the internet and add it to your site). And the code used for adding it to your web page. If you take some time to play with the Arachnophilia program, you will find the program will automatically create the beginning and ending code for the things I have been explaining. It is much easier to use these automatic generators, but it is equally important to learn what they do. Have fun playing with the program. As you will learn, HTML can be a very interesting and fun activity. It is not difficult, and is very forgiving of mistakes. The more time you spend playing with it and practicing, the easier it will become. I'll send the next lesson later today. Have fun! Oh yes, I promised to tell you what to do with your own new site. That lesson comes as soon as you have something to add to it. But, I will type it up and send it so you can do it as soon as you are ready. *smile*
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