How To Design Your Own Webpage

Created Especially For You By:Amanda E. Stricklin

Where to Begin… Choose a free Web Building site.

Examples of free Web Building Sites: Angelfire, Geocites, Tripod, Lycos, College Club, etc.

Step 1: Signing Up Become a Member:

You must be a member to use Angelfire. To get started, just click the "Sign Up" button on the Angelfire homepage and fill out the required fields

Come On In...

Once you have a membership, just click the Log In button, type your member name in the directory field, and enter your password.

Step 2: Planning Think about the components of your

site, such as the layout, text, images, and overall feel.

Some things that you may want to include on you webpage:

Step 3: Getting Started

Log in to your Angelfire account

Type your Lycos Network member name in the Member Name field, and your password in the Password field, and click Log In.

Enter the Web Shell

Step 4: Files vs. Directories

A directory is like a "cabinet" where your files are stored. A directory can contain many files.

A file is like a "piece of paper" that could be a page of HTML, or could be an image, or some other item

Example:

Step 5: Index.html The index.html file is the first page

people will see when they type in your URL.

When you type in: www.angelfire.com/film/name the browser looks for www.angelfire.com/film/name/index.html

Step 6: Beginning With Basic Editor

Highlight the index.html file, and click the Edit button on the Web Shell toolbar.

You'll be given several choices as to the layout and content of your page, using our Basic Editor Standard template.

Once your choices have been selected, click the Save button. This is where the fun begins!

Step 6: Cont’d Example:

If you're going to use any images on your site, you'll need to put them in your Angelfire directory.

The Web Shell's convenient uploading feature can be used for this.

                                                  

Step 7: Uploading Images

Most decide to store their images in the images directory that Angelfire provides.

Once the directory is opened, you can use our Uploader to copy your images into this directory in your Angelfire account

Once you've selected all of your images, click the Upload button, and the files will be copied into your images directory.

Step 8: Adding Pages To create a new file, type the new file

name into the Name field (don't forget the .html extension!), and click the Create button.

Select your choices and hit the Submit button. You can then use the Basic Editor to customize your new page.

Step 9: Links For visitors to navigate your site,

you'll need to link all of your files together.

If you wish to add links, you'll need to type the URLs, or web addresses, for the links in the text boxes.

Step 10: Saving Save as often as possible!

Just click the Save button at the top or bottom of the editor screen. Once you click it, you will be brought back to the main Web Shell screen.

Once information is erased, there is no way for Angelfire to retrieve it.

Step 11: Updating Updating your site is no different than

the first time you worked on the files.

Log in with your username and password, then just highlight the file you wish to work on and click the Edit button.

Don't forget to save your work.

Step 12: Getting Help When questions

arise, please feel free to contact the Angelfire (or other Web Builder) customer service department.

Enjoy Creating Your Webpage!