Joel Hendon

How To Easily Learn To Build Your own Website(s) Free


Posted: Wednesday, October 10, 2007

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The internet has grown from a sparsely supplied means of learning to a vast universe of shared knowledge within the past thirty years. Sources of information, besides being few in number, were very difficult to find. Now, you can enter almost any few words into a top search engine such as Google, then look at the enormous figure of results that are available. I just tried the word "soups" in Google's engine and pulled up 194,000 results! I retired ten years ago in 1997. While working the last several years before retirement, it was necessary that I use a computer for entering data concerning my daily work routine and it was my first encounter with the things.

I found them to be intriguing, amazing, and almost unbelievable. Even the early word processing programs did so much that I always wanted to be able to do. I could make very attractive announcement posters, brochures, etc., with different fonts, different sized and underlined wordsamazing. The only typewriters I had ever owned or had access to, could do nothing like that. I vowed to own one when I retired but they were much more expensive then and I could scarcely afford to invest so much in one while the wife was barefoot. Yet, it was midsummer and I knew she could wait until cold weather, so I bought a used one. And my first challenge was to learn to build websites.

I found there were web hosts who would allow you a limited amount of web space free by also allowing you to be harassed by advertisements, some a little ugly at times but I wanted to learn. These also had wizards which would allow you to build a website without knowing any HTML or any other type programming. For those of you who are totally lacking in knowledge of constructing a web page, it might be well to begin that way as I did. You don't learn how to make things do what they do, but it will kindly allow you to see how you can erase or change some feature, especially if you make a mistake. There are numerous companies who offer free space today. Here are a few for you to examine and choose from. And I have no connection to any of these, so don't think I am advertising. http://www.freewebspace.com/ , http://www.100webspace.com/web_hosting/free_plan.html , http://www.awesomewebspace.com/ , or you can find hundreds on Google.

But as soon as you get your feet on the ground here, you need to start learning a little HTML ( Hyper Text Markup Language ). It will take you quite a while to become proficient in web building but there is available to you almost all you'll ever need to learn, in free tutorials. I will direct you to some good ones below. I received no assistance from anyone who knew the steps of building web pages. What little I now know, I gleaned from tutorials. And after you master the very basics, you can refer to tutorials for special effects and special features, such as drop down menus, thumbnail photos, etc.

You may visit some of my most recent websites and if you have never before looked at the database of a page, right click on a (non-photo spot) and then left click on "view source" on the menu that appears. What comes up may appear totally discouraging to you but have no fear, the more you look, the more you will be able to see, and possibly understand what has been done. I had intended to give you several examples of what html commands will do, but I fear the web space for these articles might utilize the commands rather than show them.. Here are the three most recent pages that I have built.

http://folsomfhandcemetery.com/index.html

http://www.alcg.net/piedmontcoc/index.html

http://www.alcg.net/piedmont/index.html

After you get the feel of things there are many ways you can learn to use short cuts. When you build a page successfully and are pleased with it, you can go to the "view source" described above and you can leave all the basic formation and commands in tact. But, you can erase anything you desire to do differently and change it right there. Finish all changes needed to build your new page and then use your "select all" link and copy the entire page, paste it into your new page space. I have produced a bi-weekly ezine now since September 2001 and the basic format of the page has only been changed 3 times. Otherwise, I simply go in and change the text and a photo now and then to create the new ezine.

Various colors are achieved by a code number. #000000 is black. #FFFFFF is white. Altering any of the 6 digits will change the color or shade. The last two digits give you varying shades of blue, the center two digits give varying shades of green and the first two, red. To increase any color from lightest to darkest goes downward from F through A and then upward from 1 through 0. There are a number of color code charts on the internet. One is http://html-color-codes.com/

A few of my choicest HTML tutorials are: http://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp

http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/document/

http://www.quackit.com/html/tutorial/

I hope this is helpful, even though it isn't much. But when you visit a tutorial you will realize that not much of it can be given in an article with restricted length and also if the space accepts html coding. If it does, none of the commands would be visible in the article. Just kidding about the wife's shoes!

Author Biography: Joel Hendon was born near Gadsden Alabama. He attended public schools in Cherokee County, Alabama and after serving a tour of duty in the U.S. Army during the Korean War, attended Jacksonville State University, majoring in Business Administration. He became a Christian in 1948, and although he followed secular work as a career and retired from Allied Signal Aerospace, he is an avid student of the Holy Bible and related works as well as biblical history. He has an extensive website of conservative religious and political articles.http://hebronics.org/index.html

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