Rod Rodrigues

• Support groups that you know.
• Support programs
• Keep in touch with old friends
• Let people know how to contact you.
• Submit school work
• Put up a photo scrapbook to share with friends and family.
• Construct a lesson to help people learn about something.
• Learn how to set up Web pages - it is a useful and marketable skill.
• Sell products
• Point people to sites you have discovered which you think are great.

Once you are all set up, you will need to plan ahead for how this will be managed and maintained.  You need to decide what kind of tools you need. The higher powered tools cost more than a hundred dollars to get started, and web sites can cost $25.00 per month,

So consider what you need:

• A modem or an Internet Connection
• A local provider or an account at a school
• Web Space for your web page.
• Web authoring tools for preparing and designing your page.
• A program for uploading your files to your web space
• A graphics editor for working with graphics
• Sound software?
• Getting Photos onto the web?
• Lots of patience

If you use your own local provider, the next thing you need is a program which you can use to upload your files to your site. This is called FTP, or File Transfer Protocol. A good program for this is WinsockFTP and can be obtained from http://www.newebgroup.com by looking in Free Stuff.  Some free sites have their own way of dealing with this, however, so you have to check with your provider.

OK. So you got your site and you got FTP. Now you need to create your pages. Where do you start?

When you have assembled your tools and your web space, you need to plan your site. It is a good idea to browse the web, looking for sites that relate to interests that you have. If you find some, then you can study what you see. When you find things you like, note where they are. If you see a feature, use View/Page Source to see how they did it; in fact, you can copy/paste segments of their code!

To copy segments of code from another page, highlight the text/codes you would like, and press Ctrl-C (or right-click/copy). This copies it to the clipboard. Then place your cursor into your web page and use Ctrl-V to paste the text in. When doing this of course, you must be extremely careful, since you may be pasting in references to files that do not exist on your own site.

You might want to assemble graphics as well. You can DL a graphic by right-clicking on it and selecting Save Image or Save Picture. There are many other ways to assemble graphics for the web.