Being that HTML is new to me, the more I work on my web page, the more ideas I get. We have a family web page that we pay a flat fee for, but it was very basic and too hard to work with. So, after reading Chapter 2, I went searching for a free web host. I have tried a couple of other free ones since yesterday, but the one that is easiest to work with is www.tripod.lycos.com. Even though there are a few ads on the page, and the URL isn’t glamorous, I guess that’s the price of free hosting. You can use Filezilla to upload your html pages directly in to the tripod.lycos ftp site after you register. This is the easist way, for an unexperienced person, to create your pages. Two tips: First, when you register, your username will be the main part of your URL, so make sure the username you pick is what you want your address to be. And secondly, the ftp address is ftp.tripod.com (it was a little hard for me to locate this, so I wanted to save you the trouble).
Second thing is a free, visual html editor. I went to www.CoffeeCup.com, that was referenced in our book, and downloaded it. You can either write html code, or upload other code, and then preview it right then without having to go back and forth opening the page in text, and then going back and opening the page in the browser. It also has some easy tools for inserting lines of code based on what you want (i.e. If you want the font to be Arial and 5pt, it will write the code for that for you and insert it wherever you put your cursor).It even has templates, graphics, icons, easy table creators (I made a calendar for my family website with this one), and some other cool stuff.
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