TIPS FOR THE ASPIRING P.H.O.N. LOCAL BRANCH WEBMASTER

I know you have been looking very enviously at the Ryan Branch website so I offer a number of suggestions about how to go about devising , uploading and maintaining a website for your branch of PAULINE HANSON'S ONE NATION. As there is a lot of information you might like to print this page. Note that I am also the Queensland One Nation webmaster.See this at www.qld.onenation.com.au. If you are a complete beginner with computers I suggest you obtain the Readers Digest book " How to do Anything on a Computer " ( $67 posted from Readers Digest in Sydney : ISBN 1 876689 66 8 ). They will send you a bill with this very comprehensive and simply written book. They will then annoy you interminably with junk mail.

TAFE Colleges run web design courses for beginners however I suggest you do not enrol until you have educated yourself about the internet and how your computer's operating system works to create files and how they are stored and moved around the hard disk. This is because web design programs assume basic keyboard skills. You should be able to use a word processing program before you start as this gives you the basic skills to use in web design.

If you wish to acquaint yourself more generally about computers I suggest the sixth edition of H. L. Capron "COMPUTERS" ( Addison Wesley : 2001: ISBN 0 201 33613 8 ). This comes with a very useful cd which assists you greatly. Don't be lonely while using your computer. Visit www.bonzi.com and download BONZIBUDDY. This is a purple , speaking ape who keeps you entertained. For US$9.95 a month you can then become a Bonzibuddy Gold Member and get a regular newsletter and a fresh supply of jokes which Bonzibuddy tells in a random manner. You right click on the ape to activate its menu a part of which is an electronic diary with a reminder function.

• Think about what you would like to put on the website. You could start with a text only site with only one page.
• You can do it on your own. I bought an IBM Thinkpad , Curt Simmons book on Windows Millenium Edition and then carefully explored the various components of Windows ME ( my computer's operating system ).
• Learn how to type and to use the variety of keys on the keyboard. You can download a free typing tutoring program called typingmaster2002 from www.typingmaster.com . This is what I did. I then perfected my keyboard skills.
• Educate yourself about the internet and be aware of how websites are found and what makes them interesting to look at. Don't try to start with a complicated site using sophisticated software. This can come later.
• Bundled with INTERNET EXPLORER, microsoft's web browsing program, is a cut down version of Micrsoft Front Page, called Front Page Express. If you look in Programs , look at accessories, then internet, then front page express. Do not confuse this with Front Page 2000 or Front Page 2002. You have to buy these large programs.
• Bundled with NETSCAPE NAVIGATOR, another web browsing program, is Netscape Composer. Like Front Page Express this is a simple web site authoring program. Both are quite adequate for a simple site.
• A web page must have a title. If it the first page it must be called ....index.html....The suffix or file extension name .html indicates that the file is a web page. Your computer will probably store this file in the My Documents section. To change the content in a web page you must access it from the files inside your web editing software , e.g. Frontpage Express. Save the amended web page when you are finished.
• If you want to have more than one page on your site you have to link each page to the home page at least. To do this you have to create a hyperlink . Put all your hyperlinks at the bottom of each page in a rational manner. Alternatively you can put the hyperlinks down the side of the home page . This happens with the website of the P.H.O.N. Broken Hill site.
• Be clear at the start how your web authoring program creates hyperlinks. If not you will incorrectly create links so that when your site is uploaded to the internet service provider's computer the links will not work,alas. If this happens you have to correctly create the links, save the amended page, and upload it with the same file name.
• Having created a website you now have to make a decision. The site has to have an address. Mine is http://au.oocities.com/onenationryan . This is called a sub-domain. If it was www.onenation.org.au it would have its own domain. The party's website www.onenation.com.au has its own domain. It costs money both to register a domain name and for your internet service provider to host it.Try visiting www nameit.com.au where you can register a domain name such as www.onenationanywhere.org for $75 for 2 years.A credit card or direct deposit payment is required.
• My site sits on the YAHOO! GEOCITIES section of the Ozemail computer in Sydney. It costs the Ryan Branch nothing as it is a banner site with an ad in the right hand top corner as you have seen. The only problem with this is that search engines find sites with sub-domains hard to find. Trellian Software at www.trellian.com has a program which submits your web site to a huge number of search engines. It is called Submit Wolf Pro and sells in Harvey Norman shops for $150. Have a look at the Trellian site first as you can download a 31 day trial version with which you can submit your web site to a huge number of search engines around the world via the Trellian web site. Pay them US$95 and you a have a downloaded fully functioning version with monthly free upgrades. Another way to go about it is to visit www.ineedhits.com and look at the advice it contains and download one or more of the web site submission software programs there.See also www.addme.com . A good book on this topic is Robin Nobles and Susan O'Neil " Maximize Web Site Traffic" (Adams Media Corp : 2000 : ISBN 1 58062 3697 ).
• To upload your site to the YAHOO!GEOCITIES host visit http://au.geocities.yahoo.com/ . Follow the uploading instructions. If your page or pages have been successfully uploaded it will say so. Then click FILE MANAGER to look at them. Write down your password. Don't be the only person in your branch who knows it.
• When you are ready to try a more complicated web authoring program either buy one or download one . I have visited www.download.com and downloaded the free COFFEE CUP HTML EDITOR which has fancy things like JAVASCRIPT. You can find out more about this popular software by visiting www.coffeecup.com .This is a large 10.5 megabyte program. Apparently it has 8 million users. .
• To get a link to your site in the members, then branch meetings section of the party's site advise the web address to our national webmaster, SUSAN BRYCE, at webmaster@onenation.com.au . State branch websites may also allow a link. Note that the national webmaster does not maintain STATE P.H.O.N. Division websites. Each P.H.O.N. division has its own webmaster. In NSW it is Brian Zarth. In W.A. it is Lance Baker. In South Australia it is Ian Marston. In the N.T. it is Wayne Norris.Your state director knows.
• A very useful book is Bud Smith and Arthur Bebak "Creating Web Pages for Dummies" (IDG Books: ISBN 0-7645-0357-x ). This has a cd with it . You can install programs from it. To grasp the huge variety of information in it you would definitely not want to be a dummy. Other good books are Wendy WILLARD "WEB DESIGN" (Osborne : 2001 : Isbn 0-07-213390-2 : $50 ) , Joe Burns " Web Site Design Goodies " ( $65 : Que : 2001 : ISBN 0 7897 2485 5 ). Joe has an accompanying site www.htmlgoodies.com which is very interesting. The ultimate guide is Peter Kentie " Web Design Tools and Techniques " ( $80 : 2001 : Peachpit Press : Berkeley , California : ISBN 0 201 71712 3 )
• A variety of websites exist to assist people creating sites. Some you might like to visit are www.werbach.com ,www.webreview.com , www.webmonkey.com , www.useit.com , www.thenet-usa.com , www.zdnet.com .
• To liven up your emails I suggest you download the amazing free program INCREDIMAIL from www.incredimail.com . This is a 4 megabyte program. With it you can quickly extract incoming emails from your ISP's email section and then read them in colour. You then have to install it as your default email program possibly replacing Outlook Express.
• You may wish to use one or more photographs in your web site. To do this a scanner is required. Start by taking your photo to a photography shop. They will scan it on to a diskette. If your computer has the software to accept the image click my computer in your desktop . Click disk drive. The image will then be absorbed and given a name by your image editor software. Right click the icon so created on your desktop and send it to my documents or my pictures or wherever you choose. You can then insert it into a web page after you have reduced or cropped the image to a suitable size. To do this you have to learn how it is done on your imaging software. I use 602 Pro Suite Photoeditor. A very useful book about scanners and image editors is Jill Gilbert's "How to do Everything with your Scanner" ( Osborne : 2001 : ISBN 0-07-219106-6 ).
• Install a firewall program, such as Zonealarm, free from www.zonelabs.com . This stops hackers and reveals attempts by them to hack into your computer while you are connected to an internet service provider. Install an anti-virus program, such as Nod32, an anti virus program recommended by Australian PC User magazine.Cost is $82.50. Call 07 3204 5000 or visit www.nod32.com.au .Be sure to download on a weekly basis new virus definitions from the software providers web site. A virus scan done regularly will reveal any viruses sent to you by email although a good program spots them as they come in via an email. The software then quarantines them. A good book on this is Matthew Danda "Protect Yourself Online" (Microsoft Press ; $48 : ISBN 0 735 611 882 ).

• Finally a message..........................enjoy yourself..............be creative................think about the people looking at your website.............think about adding , when you can do it, such things as animated GIFs and Java applets......all of which and much more are in COFFE CUP HTML EDITOR which is mentioned above.

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