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Stake Your Claim On The Web! by BB Lee (c)2002
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Once upon a time the World Wide Web was a vast new wilderness,
waiting for new settlers to discover their hidden territory.
Now, that's changed. As many new Entrepreneurs are parking their
sites left and right, grabbing a piece of the web for their own
personal or business pages.
With a bit of work and dedicated perseverance you can claim your
own piece of the World Wide Web.
Most Internet service providers offer their customers a space to
place a basic home page on the World Wide Web. With the basic
home page you will get your very own URL. (Universal Resource
Locater)
This will be your personal address on the web. Now, anyone who
knows your URL will know how to contact you on the World Wide
Web. Even if they are on the other side of the world!
Many places exist where you can easily set up a free home page
account. Here are a few popular choices:
http://www.angelfire.com http://www.geocities.com
You could also surf to http://www.google.com...
Type Free Web Host into the search box. And then check out the
top Free Web Host. Comparing their services.
Here are a few cool reasons to start a Web Page:
-Use your new Web Page to start a business idea. -Advertise
where guest can find your Wedding. -Information on an upcoming
family reunion. -To put together a class reunion and find
classmates. -Publish your ideas about life to the world.
-Publish your works of art and literature to the world. -Build a
page to help with a charity or personal project. Web pages are
written in HTML. This is a special language read by computers.
There are special editors that will let you compose HTML
documents quite easily.
Microsoft Front Page http://www.microsoft.com
Dreamweaver http://www.macromedia.com
Or you could download one of the WYSIWYG editors. (What You See
Is What You Get!)
With these editors you can easily compose a web page without
knowing any HTML at all.
Cool Page http://www.coolpage.com
So, what are you waiting for? If you are in a hurry download one
of the WYSIWYG editors and spend one afternoon playing around
with the controls until you understand them.
Or use the editor at one of the free website host to compose
your first Home Page on the Web. The web host will usually
supply examples and give you complete instructions on how to set
up that first web page. Plus most of the free web host supply
users with WYSIWYG Editors. Composing your first web page could
not be easier!
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BB Lee is Editor/Publisher of SmallBizBits FREE Home Based
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