Here are a few tips and hints that are well more than just tips and hints because they are essential points to apply to your web work. These items if remembered will make your lifelong learning of web page design a little easier to start with.

Building a web page is not like word processing or Corel or your web page design!

Web pages are written in HTML (hypertext markup language) and are thus quite unique.

You do not have to know how to programme in HTML to build a web page .......but at some point in time you will realize that a knowledge of HTML is very handy if only for tuning up your web page. Your everyday emails are HTML do you ever give it a second thought?

This page in fact this website was built in Microsoft FrontPage and served in Toronto, Vancouver, and Seattle on a server with FrontPage server extensions.

Webpages are recognized by their .htm or .html extensions

The first page of your website MUST BE CALLED >>INDEX.html after that you can give a file any name you like with the .htm extension

You must begin to think like a librarian. Think about the structure of your website before you start building or you will soon create an organizational nightmare. For example if you hyperlink various pages of your website together and then change the URL of the top pages then all the links must be set up again and then you will get smart really fast.

All your pictures .GIFS .JEPG etc. must be loaded into the webfiles at the server.

Feel free to link to other websites, .wav files, or have your website distributed across several websites anywhere in the world. For example I have this site based in Vancouver but alot of my bulk files such as pictures, videos and such are distributed on several free servers (as well as archived on my own RW CD).

Be aware that person using the web are turned off by slow loading pages so do your best to minimize file sizes, keep pictures and graphics as small as possible, load as .GIFS if possible.

By all means go out and have fun learn from your teacher, your friends, others on the web, and your own mistakes.

No electrons or photons will be harmed and you will soon become a wiz.