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Building
Your Own Personal Mission Web Page!
The
Easy Way to Build a Very Basic Single Web Page
Good News! Building your own simple web page is pretty easy.
Here's a way to build a web page that doesn't require special
software tools, just Microsoft Word. Once you decide to get
more involved in website design and programming, I suggest you
buy Microsoft FrontPage or Macromedia Dreamweaver, which has
become my personal favorite.
1. Open
Microsoft Word (there may be a desktop icon you can double-click
instead)
click
on
Start
Programs
Microsoft Word
It should open a new document. If it doesn't,
click on
File
New
You're ready to begin.
Type any text you want on your site. Information about your
service, projects, history, country, people you are serving,
personal testimony, advance number, etc. Use your standard Microsoft
Word editing and formatting techniques.
To add photographs, go to the Insert Menu
click on
Insert
Picture
From File
(Here you have to navigate to find your photo file.)
Drag it wherever you want -- (or maybe wherever it wants to
go -- formatting a page is sometimes difficult)
2. When you're finished writing and including important photos,
save your file. This file will be your Microsoft Word document
(It will have the file extension ".doc"). This file will be
used if you have to make changes to your page.
click
on
File
Save (or Save As)
(You might want to create a special place to put all your
Web files.)
3. Important! You must also save your file in HTML format.
This is your Web page file (It will have the file extension
".htm").
click on
File
Save as HTML
4. Test your work.
See what it looks like in a Web browser (like Microsoft Internet
Explorer). This is what your page will look like when it is
later loaded on the Internet for the entire world to see.
Go to the directory/folder where your web file was saved.
Double-click on the HTML formatted file you saved.
(You might have two files with the same name. One will be
the Word document, and the other will be the HTML document.
The HTML file will have the icon of your web browser - like
Microsoft Internet Explorer.)
This should
allow you to see your page in a browser. How does it look?
Are you satisfied with the format, the layout, the colors?
If you want to make changes to your web page…
Open your Word (.doc) document.
Make the necessary changes.
Repeat steps 2, 3, and 4 above.
5. Have your page uploaded to a web server. When you are satisfied,
either put your web page on a disk and send it to the GBGM or
email them and include it as an attachment. They will take your
page and upload it to their server for you. If you want to put
your page on another server, you'll have to get instructions
from that server.
To put your web page on a disk,
Insert 3.5" floppy disk in drive
Go to the directory/folder where your web file (.htm) was
saved.
RIGHT-click on the web file name (.htm)
click on
Send To
3 ˝ Floppy (A)
This will put your web page onto the floppy. Someone else
will load it onto the GBGM web server so that it can be accessed
using the Internet.
Don't overload your sites with photos or it will take a long
time to load
All photos should be .jpg or .gif files. These are smaller
files and load faster.
by
Bob May, 4/15/01
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