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January 27, 2004
A: FROM MENTOR CANDICE DIXON
IN LA
Doteasy.com seems affordable.
Just to start out, you may want to try a free service that
has an online page builder like www.geocities.com. They offer
a free
service but it will have ads on your website. You can find
out more and
sign up at
http://geocities.yahoo.com/ps/learn2/HowItWorks4_Free.html.
You can purchase domain names for cheap at www.instapro.net,
$8.75 per year.
Most computers have Microsoft Frontpage, so you can use that
to design your webpage. $25 for hosting and a domain name
at
www.doteasy.com is pretty
cheap. That may be the best way to go if you are
serious about designing your own page and don't want ads on
it.
www.deonixhosting.com
also has some cheap hosting plans.
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January 20, 2004
A: FROM MENTOR EUGENIA FERNANDEZ
IN INDIANA
You can create a home page, and indeed, an entire website on
your own
computer and view it there. However, if you want to publish
it on the
web so that others can view it, you will need to have space
on a web
server somewhere. Generally this will cost money. Most Internet
Service Providers - those companies from whom you get an email
account -
will offer web hosting services for a fee. It may be included
with your
email account. You would have to check with them to find out.
If you are using a free email provider, like yahoo, chances
are they
will charge for web space. If your email is provided to you
by your
school or educational institution, it is possible they may provide
some
web hosting capabilities as well. Again, you have to ask.
Once you find the place to put your web pages the service provider
will
let you know what the main web address will be. They should
also give
you instructions on how to upload (or FTP) the web files to
the server.
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A: FROM MENTOR JOAN LUSK IN
RI
Your ISP may provide a free web site - I know Earthlink does
-
"free" as part of the basic service at aboaut $20/month,
that is. I
mentioned recently that I've learned to edit and create web
pages for
my summer music camp - we've paid for space on a server owned
by
doteasy.com, choosing it because it's cheap and doesn't clutter
up
our pages with ads. But you should be able to get a free site
for
personal use. The host may recommend software for creating web
pages. I've used Dreamweaver because it is free to me - Brown
University provides and supports it. Another editor is Composer,
which is part of Netscape. There are other that I don't know
about.
They all let you write the page as it will be seen and they
generate
the html code that makes it happen. You might find a course
locally
to get you started. If you have any friends with their own sites,
as
them. It's not very hard, but like everything else with computers,
when you don't know what to do next you can be really stopped
dead.
I bet there are far more knowledgeable mentors telling you much
more!
Good luck.
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