Bud E. Smith

If you have decided to include a sound file for download on your Web site, you don’t have to settle for sound files that are already out there. You can create your own MP3 file. It’s very satisfying to create and deliver your own MP3 file. This example uses a voice file, because that’s the easiest to create for the most people and more often useful in a typical, rather than a specialist music, Web site.

If you create a video clip, the easy way to post it on your Web site is to first upload it to YouTube, which offers tools for compressing and cleaning up your video. Uploading a video clip to YouTube easy once you have your Google ID. Sign into YouTube using your Google ID, and follow these steps to put a clip on YouTube:Click the yellow Upload button in the upper-right corner of the home page (and most other YouTube pages).

After you register for a Google account, you can use Google Page Creator to build your own Web pages. Google Page Creator gives you a lot of options; the following steps take you through some of the most important ones:Go to the Google Page CreatorGoogle Page Creator">If you are not already signed in, the sign-in area appears in the upper-right corner of the page.

One way to create and edit Web pages on your own computer is to use a text editor, such as NotePad, which lets you format your page using HTML tags. Using NotePad to work in HTML, you enter your text, add HTML tags for markup, save the file, and then open it in Internet Explorer or another Web browser. What you see when you view your HTML code in IE will truly be what users will get when they view the same Web page in the same Web browser.

As a leading WYSIWYG Web pages tool, CoffeeCup HTML Editor has all the important basic features that you need to build basic Web pages. Using these features, you can create and edit Web pages without seeing HTML tags, drag and drop links to other Web locations without typing the URL or pathname, cut and paste graphics into your Web page, resize graphics, and add alternate text, and create and edit tables and forms.

Including lists on your Web pages is good design. Lists are interesting to look at, easy to scan, and inspire you to write short, punchy phrases. Follow these steps to create a list in Notepad:Add the text for your list in Notepad.For the document shown here, this is what was typed: If you meet the following three qualifications, most important first, you may be eligible to become a member of Death Valley Hockey Club: 8 to 12 years old.

When you're creating Web pages, you use HTML — a lot! The following sample shows the HTML formatting and codes you use to create headings and titles, lists, lines, and images as well as boldface and italicized type, not to mention how to include a link.

Perhaps you want your own Web site to advertise a business or product, but you think you have to spend money to hire a professional Web designer and coder. You could invest a lot of money in a Web site, but you can also create a simple site without spending much money at all. Given the many ways you can work, and the way different Web sites and different tools handle some of the process for you, it’s important to understand the underlying steps that define Web publishing.

Including a navigation bar helps your readers find information on your site. If you are building your Web page in an HTML text editor, the coding to create a navigation bar is easy. Here’s an example of a simple text navigation bar for a small consulting business: Home | Services | Memberships | Publications | Experience | Contact me Each tab is underlined to reflect that it’s a link to that page or multipage area of the site.