Basic Tips On How To Get YOUR OWN Page

Thinking about your own page...?
It's not too hard, here are a few tips...

Firstly there are lots of people giving away "free" web space, in place for this they install a banner on your page. On some pages you can make the banner appear off of your page in a separate window.

A few webspace providers = fortunecity.com (100 Meg)
Angelfire (5 Meg - expansion to 30 Meg)
60Megs.com (60 Meg)

*P.S : Hint on 60megs.com you need to add no banner code in your page script
Angelfire there is a preferences window to change banner mode

When you find the one you want to go with, you just need to fill in a basic form.
You will now have a chosen user name, password and webspace.


You can update your page by using their file uploader but it's easier\faster to use FTP.
FTP is a small program which lets you connect to your space, you just setup your ftp address i.e
ftp.fortunecity.com
username = whatever
password = letmein

And it will connect, you see your harddrive on the left and your webspace on the right and then just transfer the files you want.

Now you're in!


Getting Started ...
The elements of a page are basic, here's an example:

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>My webPage</TITLE> (APPEARS ON SCREEN WINDOW)
</HEAD>

<BODY> (HERE'S WHERE YOUR PAGE DETAILS GO..)
<BODY BGCOLOR=#000000"> (BACKGROUND COLOUR - BLACK)
<link=#FF0080 vLink=#0000a0>(SETS A COLOUR FOR LINKS AND THOSE VISITED)
<BR> (PUTS IN A LINE BREAK AND PUSHES TEXT DOWN)
<HR SIZE=2 WIDTH=100% ALIGN=Center> (GIVES YOU HORIZONTAL LINES)
<CENTER> (TURNS ON CENTERING)

<FONT SIZE=3 COLOR=#FF0080> Welcome Visitor (SELECTS A FONT SIZE AND COLOUR)
</FONT> (TURNS FONT OFF THAT FONT SETTING)
<HR SIZE=2 WIDTH=100% ALIGN=Center> (GIVES YOU HORIZONTAL LINES)
</CENTER> (TURNS OFF CENTERING)
<FONT SIZE=+5 COLOR=#FF0080> (SELECTS A LARGER FONT SIZE AND COLOUR - NO LONGER CENTERED)
</FONT> (TURNS FONT OFF THAT FONT SETTING)
</BODY> </HTML>
TEXT NOT SET IN < > IS DISPLAYED
For the most part, all filenames etc. HAVE TO BE IN LOWERCASE..

Here you can download a zip file containing basic examples of web pages, ie. setting up a basic page with graphics, background styles, links and the use of tables. - basically all you need to get you started. Just download the files and mess about with the settings etc and you will soon get the hand of it. - If you are still stuck, you can email me and I`ll see what I can do..

Click Here For Example File (Zip File)