Hello everyone! I created this group to help people learn to create their very own websites!

My plan is that we will learn some basic html code and then I will help you create your very own website As we learn you will actually create a website!!!

So post your intro here Do you know any html/website stuff? Do you have a website already? if so the link? What kindof site are you interested in creating?

You can create a website about anything. Maybe just a personal site- about you, your family, pets etc... maybe to show off your art work, or writing, etc... the possibilities are endless.

Also you could create one for your group or your orginization.

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I taught myself how to create a website. And I am still learning. I am not an expert at all lol. But I do a fairly good job if I do say so myself lol

My website is here:
http://www.geocities.com/lilstorm_love/

It is my personal site, with info about me and also information on my spiritual path and my writings.

It actually is using a layout someone else created, which is an excellent source for those who are still learning to have a great site! I actually could do it myself lol but I came across this layout and graphics on accident and fell in love with it and had to use it. But I could do that same exact layout all by myself which is important to me

I will show you how to create layouts yourself as well as find some really good ones to use!

Below is a page of my site dedicated just to my Groups.

http://www.geocities.com/lilstorm_love/Shadows.html

I will also be creating a new website along with everyone dedicated just to my writings

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Hey all, I'm Amy, and I'm interested in making a website about my family and of course that includes my kitten Princess.

I know nothing about creating a website, or html.(which for the longest time I read as HoTMaiL..lol)

So, please help..lol

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Hi, I'm Kat and I know very little html, but want to learn. I have a webpage of  some blinkies that I have made and adopted from the web.

http://kat.picstreet.com/index.htm

I haven't done much with it in a long time. RED and her hubby helped me set it up. I need to learn to do this myself. I would like to maybe do a blog page or something. I'm not sure yet.

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Hello Im Panther... I have lots I need to learn in this area...

http://www.geocities.com/willow_86336/index.html?1083901409218

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Kat I love your Site I cant wait until I can do that....

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Panther

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OMG RAven your site is beautiful ... I cant wait to start YAY

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Thanks for joining! By the time we are done everyone will have the best kick ass websites lol

Just make sure you read this thread first and carefully:
http://www.care2.com/c2c/groups/disc.html?gpp=2424&pst=46562&archival=

and then you can begin here:
http://www.care2.com/c2c/groups/disc.html?gpp=2424&pst=46553&archival=

I want to take this alittle slow so that everyone can learn. So those who already have websites may be bored for a while lol. But I will label each thread carefully so you will know when to check in, if the begining stuff is too easy for you *hugs*

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Thank you so much Panther

I loved yours also. You have great graphics and good thought behind it

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Hello from Sara, another newbie. I’m not totally new to html and have a site of sorts, but it could use a lot of improvements. After seeing the other “newbie” sites here I almost hate to give a link, but if anyone wants to check it out you’ll find it at:  http://saragraz.topcities.com/evrn/pg1.html  

Now I must go read, read, read as the rest of you will be way by me already!  

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Hi Lucy,

I think things have slowed down here because of the busy season. But there is probably enough info in the first few lessons to get a site started to play with. You can also practice right from note pad by using your browser to open your page on your desktop. No need to upload just to practice the HTML.

That's almost the end of my limited knowledge. I'm looking forward to seeing the future lessons. 

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hey sara

thanks for the info....yes its ok by me if things slow down a bit ....at least i can keep up at this pace..lol..i just can't do things in a hurry.....

so far i have checked out all the web site links on this thread and they are all great i hope i can do similar work...

lucy

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I need lots of help with everything..lol i have a site started already,but someone else did it for me.Its nowhere near being done,but she doesn't have the time to finish it and i'd rather learn how to do it myself anyways.I can't wait to learn how to do this,thanks for starting this group!!

Heres my site so far http://www.geocities.com/katladykb

Kari

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Hi Kari,

Your site looks great! Can't wait to see how it develops!

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My name is Nora

I taught myself web design and PSP.  I learned it at http://www.webtechu.com really short lessons and easy to follow plus great teachers

My personal website is http://www.n-carousel.net one that I have done for others is http://www.nmwtx-optimist.org

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Hello everyone & welcome Such great websites everyone has!

I so know what you mean Aislinn it does get addictive lol. Right now I have been spending all my time changing my layout on my site. It took forever I swear lol but its really looking great, ofcourse right now I had to take it down as it wasn't working right ;( ugh lol

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Well I just go my website working and got it up Its a completely different layout so check it out if you are interested. I still need to tweak it here and there but for the most part its all good

http://www.stormhaven.vzz.net/

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I just found the door open as I was looking for a place to learn how to create a site.

There is a lot of information and talent here! 

First question, before I read all the older topics ... how do you choose a webhosting (is that the correct term?) site?  I want something that allows me pages for personal, Care2, FMS and Co-Cure info, animal rescue  (I rescue cate) and links to friends and family sites.  Also, are blogs safe? I am looking for a way to journal online for my friends when I am in relapse as I am now so that I am homebound and cannot visit and interact in the real world.

Whew, lots to learn!!

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Thanks Gayle

I just created a thread about hosts here:
http://www.care2.com/c2c/groups/disc.html?gpp=2424&pst=96983&archival=

Feel free to ask any other questions you have on it.

I want something that allows me pages for personal, Care2, FMS and Co-Cure info, animal rescue  (I rescue cate) and links to friends and family sites

Well you can do all of that on just about every host. As long as your content isn't adult, or illegal you basically can have any content you want on your pages.

Some free hosts may not let you use other payed advertisements other then their own though.

But basically what you are looking for would be great anywhere.

There are alot of great onlibe blogs(journal) sites already. If you get a paid host with php you could make your own. But there are free ones like http://www.livejournal.com/ and I use this one:

http://www.bravenet.com/webtools/journal/index.php

Let me know if you need any help

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hey Raven!! I know nothing about web oage design and construction soo... This is good but I wont be much help to anyone lol

Love and Blessings
Melanie

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Cheers All,

I'm a pretty good fella when it comes to fixing machines, but I've never designed a website, so don't expect too much.  I hope to learn a bit from you good folks, and Thank You Raven for the generous invite

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Glad you all could join!!

There are alot of great threads around here, if you have any questions or want to discuss something feel free!

I am trying to get the group more active lol

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Hello Linda Welcome to the group.

Yeah as soon as I get some webspace for my personal site I want to add a couple pages just for my family. Have updates about everyone, pictures, maybe do a family tree type thing and have it so my entire family even though we all live far from each other can have our own place to gather online, and also make it so everyone can update thier own info on the site and add/share stuff!

It is a great idea and nice to have!

Well I think I have some pretty good info to start with here, and if you have any questions just ask

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Well, I guess it's been here all along & I've been a member for awhile, but for some reason just skip right by it when reading the Care2 threads (not many which are very friendly these days). I've learned to stay in the craft & creative outlets of Care 2 for a while now.

I taught myself HTML while ebaying - & wanting to create pages that would get noticed. I started out collecting backgrounds & borders which the old ebay used to let you do your own HTML. Now it's all done within ebay with little effort.

One of my ebay pals showed me a geocities web page she created so I did the geocities & even built it into several pages & links. Well, I got myself into trouble when I tried to do the EDITOR thingy & move all my photos, etc into categories & folders. Now nothing shows up on my homepage.

MSN groups (or communities when I started) has web page capabiities. I used to belong to a prison pen pal club which was MSN group based. Now I find there is anything & everything in the MSN groups, from scrapbooking to clip art. Geocities seems to have changed for the better also. It seems to offer more than it did when I was doing it. I guess I need to close that old page & start anew.

I've wanted to know about other free sites, but have heard that something like Bravenet is good & fairly reasonable. I'm also sure that there are more web hosts out there then when I was searching.

Thanks for this group & venue Raven.

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PS: There are HTML kits available as well as pages for color hexes & charts. The best program I use is Evrsoft 1st Page 2000. http://www.evrsoft.com/

1st Page 2000 - HTML Editor
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It's a heavy & in depth program & takes up a lot of resources. On my old computer it took so long to go from HTML to preview & back. I haven't used it on my new computer much, but don't have the resources problems I had.

Another smaller program is the HTML kit. http://www.chami.com/html-kit/

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Welcome to the group Cherish

I know alot of people who use programs to help them. I used dreamweaver for a little while. I personally like doing it myself all by hand lol It takes alittle more work, having to write everything yourself, but I find I get it just the way I want that way. I am a virgo so ya know lol

BTW, when you have your pages online everything either needs to be in the same folder or you need to tell it where to get the image from. So if you have a folder called images where all your graphics for your site is and then you have your main area for your pages you would need to go images/imagename.jpg to link to them.

Instead of just image.jpg you have to add the folder name it is in first folder/image.jpg

Hope that makes sense!

And you are right there are a ton of free hosts out there. Most suck lol. I prefer yahoo geocities as it doesn't have popups and I like the file area better then others.

I used bravenet its good too.

Do not use tripod! They have it where in the fine print everything you put on the site becomes theirs and they can use it. Plus it is popup hell lol

If you google free webhost you will find tons. Just test them out first and make sure you have copies of every page of your site on your computer.

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I joined a long time ago, but obviously never got time to come here and introduce myself

My journey to making homepages started back at 1999 with the journey to internet. I had a shared site at Geocities, with SB, my husband.

Then I got myself an own homepage... and it was ok then, but now... I'm so totally dissatisfied and unhappy with it.

So - I am very interested in getting some help with both ideas and technique.

I usually use Netscape Pagebuilder - I think it is a shareware...I'm not sure. But it doesn't always work as it should, so I have to correct the small problems "by hand" and by doing that, I have learned some HTML coding.

But Raven is absolutely great with these things LOL I haven't even managed to realize how to use frames and things

So I'm happy to be here

Hugs,
Ket

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Welcome Ket! I love your site it has lots of info

It is kindof slow here but there is lots of info and if anyone has any questions or needs help I am always here to help just ask

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Hi, all. I had a website and helped on a few websites a while back. It has been a few years since I did anything even related to it, so I feel I will be learning all over. It is better that way, for me I think, because I was self-taught then...and I know I missed a lot.

Thank you for this group, Raven.

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Mike K.

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Just as an afterthought, I wanted to
demo a tag <B>words to be bolded</B>

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Hi all.

I'm a graphic designer who has been inta web for about 5 years.  I am a visual person and use "what you see is what you get" programs such as GoLive and Frontpage mostly, and some DreamWeaver.  I can do basic html editing, and cool rollover buttons.  My site is at: http://katharinesweb.net

I am interested in learning intermediate and advanced web techniques, and am hoping to pick up a few pointers.  Also, I would enjoy sharing what I know.

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Wecome Rabia, many of us here should be able to assist you with the creation of a website (or alteration of one) whether simple raw commands or through the use of a tool, just ask.

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I just kind of figured out how Html works and I cannot wait until I figure out how flash works. I started a tutorial but I think it will take hours and hours for me to learn it. I would love to learn how to make it so that my photo's and pics are harder to download. I guess I can write something on it with paint, but maybe there is a prettier way to do it. The flash has the layers, that is were my tutorial ended, and I thought maybe those kan kind of hide the images...

Have a great day!

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Hello All! I am just startin' to study Web Design, on my own right now...so, I thought this site looked to be very helpful & I look forward to reading thru the lessons & learning. clueless on html  ...have dabbled with some of those 'pre-setup' sites, but, never did anything on my own .

Peace & Prayers, C.C. 

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Hi all,

My website is in "soft launch" that means its not finnished but I'm starting to advertise it: www.worldheritagealert.org

Content still being written!

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I am so glad you started yet another fantastic group Raven! I took a couple of quickie courses in this several years ago, but my job did not require it and so I was never able to really practice what they showed us. And true it is, if you do not use it you run the risk of losing it. (and yepper, there is that ‘age’ factor to consider)

All of my design/artwork jobs have been mostly for print and most can understand that when you work on pc’s all day, you can lose the desire to go home and do your own things.

This is one group that I plan to set a couple of days aside to benefit from your wisdom.

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Thanks Raven, for starting this site.  I'm working on a website for business and it's going to wind up having support for over 36 languages.

I'll be cheking in here steady for tips and advise   

Peace and Light,

Sean

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Hello there.

I just fell upon this group and decided to join because I am interested in pcs and web sites.

I have created my own web site and I would like to know how to move my text to across the page rather than down one side. You will see if you check out the link. It is a big web site!

I am going to pull a page or two down or add a new one. At this point in time I am flat out with Christmas looming and that many gigs I need ten of me to cope.

anway here is my link.

http://au.geocities.com/faeriesnfaceartistry/faceart.html

Id like to create one for a friend of mine...well see further down the track.   :o)

summerannie

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Raven, you're amazing! Wherever I fallow your paths I find wonderful groups!

Best wishes to everyone.

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I haven't been here for quite a long time. And came back for a very particular reason that i have already explaned in the other thread: adding sounds.

Well, I'm rather impatient student since I don't know all the ABC steps yet. I'm quite familiar with HTML- to such extent that can create and edit announcements in my care2 group and I had a kind of webpage (with pictures and hotlinks) designed on my computer (not online) which had gone then my PC was under repair. and I also tried to make one page at http://geocities.yahoo.com/ but i didn't go anywhere further then their already prepared standard ones (couldn't figure out how to become more creative.

But it was before I came across this group. It's a great group and it has a great host!

Raven for everything you do.

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Hi Everyone

I created my first website in Jan 2003 ... I was up at 2:00 am one night wondering what I was going to do with my life, lol and this ad popped up while I was net surfing.  I signed up to this host the next day and used their software to create it...I became obsessed, l learned a lot and re-vamped my site a bunch of times throughout that year.  Then I discovered eBay and that's when I started learning a lot more HTML...but I still have lots to learn.  I've created several sites since then, and I regularly use basic HTML in creating my eBay listings.  I'm wanting to sell a couple of them that I'm not going to be using anymore...but I'm not sure how (or if) I can transfer them from one account to another (the new owner would have to get an account with this host).

So these are my two main sites and my "About Me" site.

www.FreeBirdServices.com

www.TarotwithLove.com

www.Doves.Homestead.com (I'm going to incorporate this into my FreeBird site, it just has a host name)

And these two, I really like also, but I won't be using them anymore.

www.VioletStarDesigns.com

www.DovesTreasures.com

Also can anyone explain to me how to use the SmartFTP program?  I want to save my websites, but I don't know anything about using this FTP stuff.

This is a great group and resource!  Thank you!

Dove

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This might be dependant on how "dependant" they are to their servers.   For instance, just for kicks, I saved the "source" from a viewing of the first one as a text file. And then converted it to a HTM file and it is virtually "empty".  

So, if your page(s) are dependant on their JSP or ASP servers, even if you could get the code, you would need to be able to run it.

 Did you work with any "source" or "raw" code, when making those pages ?

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WOW... what a great bunch of people! I can't wait to learn from you and with you all. I did do a website at MySpace;

http://www.myspace.com/chizza000

and it took me almost a year to do it! My first time and I went crazy teaching myself. It would have been great if I'd been a member here then! Ha Ha...

Raven, your websites are really FANTASTIC!! Hat's off to you! Can't wait to get started!!

Many Blessings,

Silver Moon

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Hi yalls! I'm new here and I decided to introduce myself. I'm Nelly and I've been working with HTML and website building for a LONG time and am quite skilled in the basics. I'm going to take a class for the more advanced stuff. I have my own site up and running,*Click Here* to see it. It still needs a little more work though... I also hand typed the HTML for the site and it took FOREVER. I'm going to send a few others your way who are intrested in learning more HTML as well.

Love and Bites,~The Shadow~

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Hello everyone,

I am here to keep my html skills up. I teach Web design at a high school. My first few weeks with the students is when we create Web pages using html. After we are finished with this overview, we then start to use Dreamweaver which is a Web design tool that lets you work without needing to know all of the html tags that are available.

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