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Starting Off

Welcome to the Starting Off portion of this site. Chip, over there to the left, will be here to help. Just click him and you can ask him any question.    Anyways, your probably thinking about making your own web page. You've seen them on the web, and thought, I'd like one of those for myself. Suprisingly, it's not really that hard to make one nowadays. There are tonnes of easy editors now that you can find all over the web which make making web pages easy.    You can go to one of these editors and make a page pretty easily for yourself, but that will only go so far, there are lots of features of this site which will help you go beyond the limits of an easier editor to make your site more interactive and fun. Therefore, getting you more hits to your site.

If you would like to use these editors first (Which I recommend), I have provided links to some with a rating on their easiness and aptitude.

Commonly Used Easy Editors

Editor: Netscape Composer Rating: 4/5 Description: A very easily used visual editor. One I recommend, some difficulties with the meu system they have, hard to find how to do somethings, may take a while to learn. The help is okay you'd be able to learn how to use it. Location: You need to download the whole Netscape Communicator package and it is included. You can download it at Netscape's Home Page. (Note: You don't get any space on the web with this editor, you need to sign up at a free web page provider like Geocities or Angelfire) Editor: Homestead Rating: 4/5 Description: A nice easy editor. It's good because when you signup you get some webspace to put your site on. Location: You need to signup at Homestead and in the member area you can create, edit, delete pages easily. Editor: XOOM's Easy Editor Rating: 3/5 Description: Another web based editor. Not as good as Homestead. You get unlimited webspace with signup. Location: You need to signup at XOOM's home page and in the member area you can create, edit, delete pages.

   Well, now you have an editor that you can use to make your page with. What are you going to put on it? Try something that interests you. If you like video games, put something about video games on your site. The possibilities are endless. Think of something original, perhaps you could do a page all about yourself? Or about your hero or heroine? The more original the topic the better.