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The first step in building a web page is to have a general idea of what your page is designed for. Some pages are simply just an "about me" page. Other pages are for online shopping, selling, advertising, the list goes on and on.
Web pages are written in a language called HTML. HTML means Hyper Text Markup Language. There are two ways of writing in HTML. The hard way is to hand write every single line of text. By placing "tags" in the hand written text, it formats it for browsers to interpret into HTML. This way is very very time consuming and you will need to know alot about HTML to make web pages this way. The other way is to get a program that places the tags in your document for you. There are hundreds of programs that do this but some are easier than others to use. Aa program called CoffeeCup is free and easy to use so we include a link to it here. Once you have your web page built you will need to upload it on our server in order to allow people to view it. There are several ways to upload files to our server but the easiest way is to FTP . FTP means File Transfer Protocol. Every person on TRAIN has web space under their username. Your main web page (the one you want people to see when they come to your web site ) should be named index.htm or index.html . If your page is going to be named something different, you will have to include the name of the file in the address (URL). Example : If your Train username is johndoe then your web site can be found at http://www.gotrain.org/members/johndoe and if there is a file in your folder named index.htm or index.html it will be displayed. If you instead named the file something else, for example mywebsite.html then you would need to include that in the address http://www.gotrain.org/members/johndoe/mywebsite.html To view your web space on TRAIN you simply type: To upload files to your web site your FTP program will need to know three things: Address : www.gotrain.org Downloads HOME |