Before you go on...

Before you move on to the following sections, we recommend that you have some experience with the Internet. If you just completed the first few sections, we highly recommend that you go somewhere else for a little while. Go to a search engine, and find a page about your favorite hobby, or your favorite celebrity, or get some ideas for your own web page. If you've already been using the Net for a while, keep reading. If not, leave this page. Yes, that's right, go away. Add this site to your broswer's Bookmarks/Favorites list, and surf the Net for a while. Then come back with some experience, and ideas for your page. When you come back, you'll understand a lot more than you did after you finished reading the previous sections. While we hope you learned a lot before you leave, you'll understand a lot more after you've used the Net.

About the next few sections

Before you use the next few sections, you'll need to know how to do a few things:

• You'll need to know how to use a simple text editor. If you're using Windows, we recommend Notepad or MS Word. If you're using MacOS, we recommend SimpleText or ClairsWorks. It really doesn't matter, though; pick a text editor you're comfortable with.
  
• You'll need to know how to save a text file as an HTML file. In the next few sections, we refer to this as saving it as an *.htm or *.html file. This means that when you save the file, give it a name like mywebpage.html. The * is a wildcard, meaning any name can go there. You can use either the *.htm or *.html extension, it doesn't matter.

  IBM-COMPATIBLE USERS PLEASE NOTE: If you ever need to go to a DOS prompt on IBM-Compatible computers, the *.html extension will make the filenames show up funny, so use *.htm if you think you'll ever need to use DOS. Just stick with one, don't mix them up, or you'll get confused.