Creating Your Home on the Web

Create your own home on the web. You don't have to be a professional web designer, artist, or have much technical know how to create a personal or business site on the Internet.

There are some tools you can use built into both Netscape's Navigator and Microsoft's Internet Explorer. But one of the leading names in computer graphics, Adobe, can give you a lot more to work with, with the latest version of PageMill. Adobe's Mark Strassman...

"On the Pagemill 3.0 CD you really have a complete solution. Over 10 thousand web ready graphics to put right on your web page, Java applets, banners, etc.. And Pagemill is a drag and drop environment."

Pagemill will take word processor documents and convert them to web pages. You can find a free trial version of the software at adobe.com.

You don't have to be a graphics professional....but if you want to avoid some of the pitfalls in web design....pardon our English and pick up a copy of Web Pages That Suck. Instructor and co-author Vincent Flanders says keep it simple....

"Don't let your ego get in the way and don't put things on the page because you can. It doesn't make any sense for a site that's talking about vitamins to put streaming video of the president of the company saying...Hi, welcome to my web site."

Make the information on your site fast and easy to find. You can find more useful tips...and excerpts from the book at webpagesthatsuck.com