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Tips for creating webpages


Saving space

1. Most places have on average a *one meg * (this is just a guess) limit for your webpage, and graphics take up a lot of room.  Instead of having having graphics on your server where you have your webpage, point to them of the form:

<IMG SRC="http://(url of where on the internet you found the graphic)">

ie <IMG SRC="http://home.netscape.com/comprod/products/navigator/version_3.0/images/netnow3.gif"> Will give you this image on your webpage: 

This method should allow you to get the most out of your space for your webpage. Some people with slow connections find it slower since they hadn't visited the sites that I had get my images from. If the image you point to is from a site that the viewer of your webpage has seen and their cache has not been cleared out. they will already have the graphic in their cache. In which case it would speed up the viewing of your page.

For Netscape Navigator gold:

Content

2. Work on the content of your webpage. Concentrate more on the content of your Webpage. Then work on the presentation. Frills and gimmicks are nice, but content is the most important.

Graphics

3. Be weary of using too many grphics. To many graphics can not only slow down a webpage enormously (this is changing with faster modems), but it can ruin the effect. Adding some graphics are nice.  

META Tags

4. Use the meta tags one your fist webpage (most likely index.html) to give a description of your site. This can be quite important if you are registering your webpage with search engine. Often what appears as the description of your site for your webpage with a search engine is the stuff between the meta tags. The Meta tags go between the <HEAD></HEAD> tags (which should appear before everything in the <HEAD> tags except the <TITLE&rt;. The Meta tags are declared like this:

<META NAME="description" CONTENT="Description of your site here">.

You can also have keywords, seperated by commas, that have to do with your webpage like so:

<META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="keyword,more key words, still more key words,">

Of couse where I wrote "Description of your site here" you would write a description of your site (200 characters of text max) and for "keyword,more key words, still more key words," you would naturally fill in your own keywords. (1000 characters of text max). Don't reuse keywords repeatedly. Search engine (and their companies) don't like that and your webpage may be removed from various search engines if you do.

For more information check out Infoseek: Adding your site to Infoseek

Where to find stuff

You can get your free web counter at http://www.digits.com.  
Places to get a free webpage http://www.geocities.com, http://www.cybercity.com, http://www.tripod.com,http://www.toptown.com
You can get some cool backgrounds at A+ Art (not to mention other free gifs).
You can Get Powwow at: http://www.tribal.com/powwow/downloadThis is a cool chat program that allows you to chat.
To get free advertising you can participate in the Link Exchange
You can get an HTML editor at: http://www.sausage.com, (make sure to get Netscape Navigator GOLD)

You can add a search engine form for your page by copying down the html from these places :
Add Infoseek search engine forms to your webpage

Add Infoseek search engine to your website

Add Lycos search engine forms to your website

Add Excite search engine forms to your website

Add MetaCrawler search engine forms to your website

Add Altavista search engine forms to your website

Adding your webpage to search engines.

Go to Submit-it to register your webpage with many search engines (for free) including any or all of Altavista, Yahoo, Infoseek and Webcrawler. Otherwise you can go add your webpage directly with each individual search engine. The following search engines you should add your site to manually since they do not support submit-it and they are also popular search engines.

HTML References

Hot tips Homepage
The HTML Reference
NCSA--A Beginner's Guide to HTML
Bare Bones Guide to HTML: Introduction
Yahoo! - Computers and Internet:Software:Data Formats:HTML:Guides and Tutorials

JavaScript References

JavaScript Intro by Voodoo
JavaScript Authoring Guide



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