What do I need to know to make a web page?
What are tags?
I want to know what tags to use when..
What other things are important in making a web site?
How do I add music to my site?
How do I Link to other pages on my site?
How do I link to other Sites?
How to I make a link to my Email Address?
How do I make a link to Email me with a Subject in the Email?

What do I need to know to make a web page?

To make a web page you need to know some basic HTML. Some people think that HTML is complicated but it really isn't. You will also need to know about Tags.

The easiest way to understand HTML is that it is a language that turns a text page into a web page and tags tell the page what to do.




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What are tags?

HTML is the language and Tags are the orders of that language. They are specific commands that tell the page exactly what you want it to do. Ie. You want to center text or a graphic...you need to tell the html document to do that by the tags.

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I want to know what tags to use when..

Since tags are very important, it is important for you to know some of them.

Here are some basic HTML tags you will need to know. Remember whenever you open a tag you must close it when you are finished doing what you want the document to do.
ie. You want the welcome to be centered.  Here is the code
<CENTER><P><B><FONT FACE="Arial"><FONT SIZE=-1>Welcome to My Web Page</FONT></FONT></P></B></CENTER>

Now I've closed all the tags (in yellow) since I want to stop the Centering here.

There are a few other important things to know when making a web site. Here are some I thought might be helpful.

1) To begin making a webpage, you must first have an idea for a site
2) Pick a good name for the site...one you will be happy with for a long time
2)  Divide it into sections (pages). Each page will have a different topic or subject and together they will form a web site.


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Another important thing to know about is Meta Tags. You can learn more about them here

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Adding music can be a wonderful experience or a nightmare, depending on your visitors so please always give them a choice to turn it off. When you embed the music without any controls you are not giving them that option. You don't need to have a large player because a small one 10x10 will still give them the option of turning it off.

Here is the coding for the song I have playing here.

<CENTER><P><EMBED SRC="zipadeedoda.mid" AUTOSTART="TRUE" LOOP="TRUE" PLAYCOUNT="2" WIDTH="150" HEIGHT="20" ALIGN="CENTER"> <NOEMBED> <BGSOUND SRC="zipadeedoda.mid"> </NOEMBED> </EMBED></P></CENTER>

I have it set for 150 x 20 but I usually use smaller.  Just change the name of the midi that I have in bright yellow and add your own music.

Netscape and Internet Explorer require different things for music to play on your website.

Each of the tags tells the document what to do:

The <Embed> and <Bgsound> Tags
You can use the Embed tag to have sound automatically play on your page. However, Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer require two DIFFERENT tags to tell the browser how to handle sound files.
You MUST include both tags to get the sound file to play in all formats of both browsers.

The <EMBED> Tag works in Internet Explorer 4.0x, 5.0x, Navigator 3.0x, 4.0x The <BGSOUND> Tag works in Internet Explorer 3.0x (best used with the NOEMBED tag... see below)

Here is the coding for adding sound files that most every browser can handle:

<CENTER><P><EMBED SRC="zipadeedoda.mid" AUTOSTART="TRUE" LOOP="TRUE" PLAYCOUNT="2" WIDTH="150" HEIGHT="20" ALIGN="CENTER"> <NOEMBED> <BGSOUND SRC="zipadeedoda.mid"> </NOEMBED> </EMBED></P></CENTER>


AUTOSTART= Using this attribute will tell the browser to play a sound automatically by entering "TRUE" as the Value. The sound will NOT start automatically if you enter "FALSE" as the Value.

LOOP= In Netscape, Loop will tell the browser to play the sound over and over in an endless Loop by entering "TRUE" . If you only want to hear it once, then enter "FALSE" .
(Internet Explorer does not recognize this attribute. Use PLAYCOUNT= as shown below for IE.)

PLAYCOUNT= Enter a number ("2" or "5" etc.) will tell Internet Explorer how many times to play the sound. (Netscape does not recognize this attribute.)

WIDTH= and HEIGHT= In Netscape, these attributes define the appearance and size of the CONTROL PANEL that shows up but (Internet Explorer does not recognize this Tag.)

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