Creating Web Pages

Using Tripod.com

This page is stored at: https://members.tripod.com/~CJMorrison/Tripod.html

Author: Carl Morrison E-mail: CmptrTchr1@hotmail.com

 

To Create a Web Page that is FREE to create, access, change, and maintain, following easy prompts, all you need is an E-Mail Address. Hopefully, previously you signed up for Hotmail and have such an address. If so,

At an Internet-Connected computer, start Netscape to go online and in the "Location" text box, type:

http://www.tripod.com

When this screen appears, pull down 'Bookmark' and select 'add bookmark' so you won't have to type it in again on this computer.

This screen appears and you only want to focus on 'build homepages'...there will be a lot of other things on the screen trying to get your attention, but this is in the upper left corner of the screen. Click on "It's fast and free!' as the pointing hand shows below:

 

Since the first edtion of this tutorial, as expected, Tripod made some changes. Be sure to look for the above graphic at this point and click to use the 'old Hompeage Builder' which, just like me, is better than the new one. The following graphics are from the 'old' Homepage Builder.

Next screen, click "First Time Builders Wanted"

Tripod makes it EASY to become a paying user of their web pages, but if you notice, when you pass the mouse arrow over the "Join Tripod" the arrow turns into a pointing hand, meaning you can click it. This is the only way to a FREE web page.

 

The next time you reach this screen, you will enter your member name and password.

You will have to 'JOIN'...a process similar to registering for hotmail. It is worth it to get 11 megabytes of free web space!

To register, fill out the questions they ask you, as you did in Hotmail. You will be given a login name that no one already has. Write it down.

They will send your password to your e-mail address (so be careful that you enter your e-mail address perfectly). I suggest that as soon as you get the password, you change it to something you can remember.

After registering, click MAKE A HOMEPAGE.

Your first task in building your first web page is to name it. No problem with keeping the default name, 'index.html' for now.

 

Next step is choosing a Layout. You have 2 choices. Click the red "Layout..." link when you've made a decision after reading the descriptions of both under the two samples.

Next you start making the sections of your page: title, color, and section 1. Notice the red links...just click them to work on that section. If you don't want to use the selections they give you, for instance in Section 1, you can change them with further training after this tutorial.

When you use "A Block of Text" you can 'copy and paste' that from a file on a disk you have already typed...you don't have to retype it here.

You have other sections to work on. You don't have to finish each section now. You can come back later and finish it. However, you won't be able to come back until they send you the password at your e-mail address, so do as much as you can now before saving the whole page.

 

The final state in creating your Web Page is to finish these sections and 'Save the Page'

This is the screen you get after all your hard work:

The part that will be different than mine above is you name inserted where mine is. You homepage address will be like this:

https://members.tripod.com/~(your name)/index.html

(write it down so you can tell your friends by sending it to them through hotmail)

CLICK your red/underlined web page address to see how it looks to the rest of the world.

BOOKMARK your page on this computer so you can return to it without typing in all that long URL again.

Tripod encourages you to 'tell the world' about your page. I've resisted the temptation thusfar, thinking none of my pages had any interest to the 'world.' I just tell my friends and colleagues and students the addresses of the specific pages I want them to see by sending them the address through e-mail.

However, if you Want people all over the world to be able to use 'net search' to find your page, submit it!

Finally, notice that you have 11 MB os free space here at Tripod and also note how much you've used with your first page and how much space you have remaining to use.

As you can see, I have used 8 MB of my 11 MB, but I use photographs extensively which take up much more space than text.

Remember: All this work is saved on THEIR server and you can only get to it at an online computer. What happens if you can't get on the interenet some day because the 'system is down'?

 

 

After today's building session, you will always use the 'housekeeper' to update your home page. ----------------->

 

On the same screen is the 'Homepage Building Help' Use this Help section to see how to change your password. This area also helps with things such as a forgotten password. ------------------------->

 

 

We will cover how to create and save your home pages off-line next time!