Getting Started
By Linda Roeder, About.com Guide to Personal Web Pages
Get started learning about personal Web pages. Whether you want to build your own Web site from scratch or create a social networking site you can find the help you need here.
Personal Web Basics
Information on how to build your own personal Web site from scratch. Create your site with or without HMTL and other Web site codes. Learn how to use layouts, colors and graphics to design your Web pages. Find out the do's and dont's of Web site design so you can create great looking Web pages and an easy to use Web site.
- 10 Simple Design Tips
- To Do, And Not To Do
- Good Design Is Essential
- Customize and Personalize
- Organize, Don't Get Lost
- Cut, Copy and Paste Your Way To Better Documents
- Privacy and Security
- Website Editors, Builders
- Personal Website Hosting
- Web Page Templates
- Easy To Add Scripts
- 14 Tips for Adding Graphics & Photos
- Top 10 Photo Hosting & Sharing Sites
- Free Clip Art
Social Networking Basics
This is where you'll find out how to create and add to your social networking sites. Get information on how to add Web apps and layouts to MySpace, Facebook, Hi5, Xanga, Yahoo 360, Windows Live and many others. Also find hacks, layouts and avatars and learn how to add graphics, video, music and more.
- How To Use Facebook's Homepage
- Facebook Tips and Tutorials
- Adding Facebook Photos
- Facebook Apps
- Create a Facebook Group
- Facebook Privacy Settings
- Getting Started with MySpace
- 12 Ways To Make MySpace Better
- MySpace Tutorials and Templates
- MySpace IM
- Games and Gadgets for MySpace
- MySpace Privacy Features
- Hacks for MySpace and Facebook
- Tour Social Networking Sites
- List of Social Networking Sites
Photo Sharing Basics
If you're like me you have a lot of photos that you want to share with your family. What better way then to post them all online? Post all your photos with a photo sharing site, then share them.
Wiki Basics
Wikis are Web sites that you create and let other people edit and add to. Wikis are good for all sorts of things like club Web sites and Web sites about a specific subject. Let your Web site's members add information and edit old information to keep your wiki fresh.
Blog Basics
Blogging is the art of writing down your thoughts and feelings on the Internet. Find out how you can create your own blog, how to add photos, video and music to your blogs and how to write compelling blog entries.
