How to make your own webpage.Like the 4peaks.com webpage? You can have one like it or better. Just knuckle down, get to work and do it yourself! CLICK & GO! (On this page.) Minimum System Requirements. Cost and time. The message. HTML. (The language.) Code editor. Additional programs. Need Help? More about how to make a webpage. (on the internet). Guest Notes: "I've been reading your work-of-art website. It's one of the grandest vacation websites that I've ever come across . . ." About "A personal potpourri" Minimum System Requirements. A. A message. Something to say and the ability to write it well. B. A computer with internet access. C. Money. Programs and web hosting will run $200-$600 starting up (thereafter $6-$15/month). Cost (and time) will be lowest for text only pages, or just with some "borrowed" images. Creating and optimizing your own images requires special programs and graphics skills. A guestbook or other visitor entry forms can be gotten free (with advertising), but clean ones are available with higher end hosting. Both take time to maintain. The message. The safest way to creating a web page that you'll be satisfied with is to write it yourself. Crank up your word processor and get started. Think of it as an important term paper, a resume, or a love letter--any kind of writing you've done that you've been successful at. A web page is no different than that. HTML (Hypertext markup language). When you're done writing you need to add hypertext markup codes that will make your message intelligible to the web browsers that will view it on the internet. Very much like printer's typographic codes or proofreading markup codes, hypertext markup language (HTML) controls type size, type font, line and paragraph breaks, boldface, italic and much much more. While the simpler HTML codes are easily learned and can be added in any word processor, it is easy to make mistakes (which browsers will not tolerate), much of the coding is more complex. Very time consuming to write in my hand. Code editor. We reccommend starting out with a code editor, and the leanest, cleanest is Homesite, a MacroMedia product. I've used that program (and antecedent versions) since 1997, when I first wrote and uploaded www.4peaks.com. It's the only one that allows you to view, become familiar with and control the codes you need. Such control, of course, is an absolute requirement for making changes and additions to your web page. If you choose "PageOne" or any of the many other "HTML for Dummies" programs, you will be stuck in a maze of templates and forms which will restrict your writing. The code will be unintelligle and revisions a nightmare.
Thumbs Plus Facilitates handling, modifying images in quantity. Creates tables to display images with thumbnails (www.cerious.com). JASC Paintshop Pro Enhancing, altering images. Mixing images. Including alphnumerics (www.corel.com). Xat.com Image Optimizer Images load faster with optimization (www.xat.com) FileZilla Uploading files to web host server (www.filezilla-project.org) Need Help? Help is available from "Your Adirondack Guide" for paying Fourpeaks guests. One hour free at my computer, by appointment. Additional time, $35 per hour, subject to availability. "I've been reading your work-of-art website. It's one of the grandest vacation websites that I've ever come across . . ." Date : 12/16/2004 Time : 12:21 AM Name : Ray Lorenz Email : Birch@aol.com Location : Cape Coral, FL Comments : I've been reading your work-of-art website. It's one of the grandest vacation websites that I've ever come across, and, of course, the camp(s)themselves are totally gorgeous. I'm sending your website to a friend in Hayward, Wis. who owns and manaages a fishing/golf resort that has been in his family since 1921. His camp is similar in some respects to yours. If you designed this website, consider yourself as another Monet or Matisse or Rembrandt. You certainly deserve applause and accolades. Subject: Re: Guestbook Entry Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 13:44:45 -0500 (EST) From: "Martin (Your Adirondack Guide)" Martin@4peaks.com To: Birch@aol.com Ray-- Thank you for your appreciative note about my webpage. Yes. I did it all by myself. If your friend in Wisconsin can write English and has a story to tell about his camps, he can do as good as I have done (or better). He should avoid professionals who today make only crude imitations of TV commercials (or worse) and charge a lot for doing so. The origins of hypertext markup language (HTML) are scholarly and these simple and effective communication methods are available to anyone at (almost) no cost. I'm preparing something new, "How to make a webpage" which will be up soon ( http://4peaks.com/pphowpag.htm ) that may be some help to him. Best wishes, Martin More about how to make a webpage (on the internet). Sorry. No hotlinks on this page. To access the webpage you want, just clip the URL and paste it in your browser. Happy surfing! How To Create A Web Page "This page explains everything that is needed for anyone wanting to create their own web page." www.make-a-web-site.com/ HTML Code Tutorial "Welcome to the HTML Code Tutorial. Our goal is to provide the most helpful and complete guide to creating web pages anywhere." www.htmlcodetutorial.com/ HTML Tutorial "In this HTML tutorial you will learn how to use HTML to create your own Web site. HTML is very easy to learn! You will enjoy it!" www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp HTML Primer "If you know nothing about HTML, this is where you start." www.htmlgoodies.com/primers/html/ Simplenet Web Hosting (Highly Reccommended.) https://secure.simplenet.com/ Homesite V.5.5 $99 www.macromedia.com/software/homesite/ 
A Personal Potpourri.Old photos, letters, clippings, greeting cards and other stuff too precious to discard. A Personal Potpourri is your Adirondack Guide's eclectic photo and writing place for stuff that just doesn't fit elsewhere in Fourpeaks Adirondack Backcountry Camps webpages. CLICK HERE for more Personal Potpourri. CLICK HERE to meet Your Adirondack Guide. .  Are you in this picture? Fourpeaks hosts now welcome paying guests to a 700-acre rest and playground for vacations in the Adirondack Great Camp tradition. Couples appreciate Fourpeaks secluded settings. Outdoor loving families have fun exploring our accessible wilderness. Folks with dogs enjoy the open spaces to run their pets. A private nature rereat. For a vacation away from it all. Are you in this picture? CLICK HERE to find out! [More about this at Frequently Asked Questions.]  Inquire about a Fourpeaks Adirondack Vacation/Getaway. (Easy Inquiry Form.)
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