If you're wondering how I made this webpage, here are all the details:

Ok, now's my time to try to impress you with all of the work it took to make this page.  It turned out to be a way bigger project than I thought it would.  However, for the most part I enjoyed doing everything and plus I learned a lot.  Here are all the steps I took to make my webpage, if you care.

1.  First, I was constantly taking pictures throughout my trip with my new digital camera I bought right before I left for Europe.  It's a Sony DSC-P51 2-megapixel Cybershot camera.  I had 192 megabytes of memory and ended up using about 3/4 of it by taking 324 shots at maximum resolution, but standard rather than fine setting.

2.  When I came home, first I uploaded all of the pictures to my computer and burned a CD for a permanent copy.  I also took my CD to Costco and had them make prints of every picture.  They all came out very well and only costed 15 cents per picture.

3.  The first step on the computer was to adjust the picture on the computer.  This mostly consisted of me making the pictures lighter, because most of them came out a little too dark and some of the colors were a little bit off.  This step was greatly helped with the program Adobe Photoshop, which makes it easy to make the picture look the best it can.

4.  The second step on the computer was to shrink each one of the 324 pictures to a size and resolution that could be uploaded to the Internet.  I had to keep in mind that my Geocities webpage only gives me 15 megabytes of storage, and I also didn't want the pictures to be too big to download for anybody who is looking at my page.

5.  After making every picture nice looking, but much smaller in size, I then uploaded every one of them to my Geocities webpage.

6.  Now I began making each individual webpage with the help of Netscape Composer.  The program didn't help me type out captions for each of the 324 pictures though, so this step took an incredibly long time, especially when I had to keep referencing my guidebooks.

7.  Finally after making an individual webpage for each city, I uploaded these pages and began testing everything to make sure all the links worked.  I also made a few extra pages like this one and my food page, and that's where we are right now.

So hopefully whoever is reading this is impressed.  I am definitely happy with how the webpage turned out, and it is definitely a good record of a lot of, but not everything, I did on my trip.

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