This is great, Bill! I think I'll send it to my daughter, she has to make a webpage for a college project. It's more like a resume type site. She can't get her pictures to show up. I remember when I first started making webpages. I almost cried many times and I don't cry easily! Becky ----- Original Message ----- From: "bilwalsh" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 4:36 AM Subject: [OKGEN ] How to build a web page in 25 easy steps > This being the time of year we can expect an influx of newbies I thought I > would post this as a help to everyone. > > > HOW TO BUILD A WEB PAGE IN 25 STEPS > > 1. Download a piece of Web authoring software ~ 20 minutes. > > 2. Think about what you want to write on your Web page ~ 6 > > weeks. > > 3. Download the same piece of Web authoring software, > > because they have released 3 new versions since the first > > time you downloaded it ~ 20 minutes. > > 4. Decide to just steal some images and awards to put on > > your site ~ 1 minute. > > 5. Visit sites to find images and awards, find 5 of them > > that you like ~ 4 days. > > 6. Run setup of your Web authoring software. After it fails, > > download it again ~ 25 minutes. > > 7. Run setup again, boot the software, click all toolbar > > buttons to see what they do ~ 15 minutes. > > 8. View the source of others' pages, steal some, change a > > few words here and there ~ 4 hours. > > 9. Preview your Web page using the Web Authoring software ~ > > 1 minute. > > 10. Try to horizontally line up two related images ~ 6 > > hours. > > 11. Remove one of the images ~ 10 seconds. > > 12. Set the text's font color to the same color as your > > background, wonder why all your text is gone ~ 4 hours. > > 13. Download a counter from your ISP ~ 4 minutes. > > 14. Try to figure out why your counter reads "You are > > visitor number 16.3 E10" ~ 3 hours. > > 15. Put 4 blank lines between two lines of text ~ 8 hours. > > 16. Fine-tune the text, then prepare to load your Web page > > on your ISP ~ 40 minutes. > > 17. Accidentally delete your complete web page ~ 1 second. > > 18. Recreate your web page ~ 2 days. > > 19. Try to figure out how to load your Web page onto your > > ISP's server ~ 3 weeks. > > 20. Call a patient friend to find out about FTP ~ 30 > > minutes. > > 21. Download FTP software ~ 10 minutes. > > 22. Call your friend again ~ 15 minutes. > > 23. Upload your web page to your ISP's server ~ 10 minutes. > > 24. Connect to your site on the web ~ 1 minute. > > 25. Repeat any and all of the previous steps ~ eternity > > > > (o:]>*HUGGLES*<[:o) > Billie and Tracie Walsh > The three best words in the English Language: > "I LOVE YOU" > Pass them on! > > > > ==== OKGEN Mailing List ==== > Online sources for locating a Town or County > http://www.rootsweb.com/~okgenweb/locatetown.htm >