Subject: Web Page setup Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 17:05:51 -0400 (EDT) ........................................................................... . Can you tell me what you need from me to post a web page. First a little background: The domain host I use is called addr.com. For about $9/month I get 40 megs of space which I use to run mellman.net (mellman.org has no space, but since it merely points to mellman.net it doesn't need space). That 40 megs has to contain everything. I don't know about a cost per meg increase in space, but I might look into that. I can't ever imagine, even in ten years, having more than 50 to 100 people using mellman.net, but with even 20 people that's less than 2 megs per person. The bottom line is space is tight. The great thing about HTML is that content does not have to be stored at one location. Your web page can have pictures, and tables, and forms, and sub-pages galore, and all of that can reside some place other than on the mellman.net domain host. I don't know how much HTML you know, or how you plan to develop your page ("by hand" or with some editing package). I can give you specifics on code later. However, when you include a picture in your web page you put in a link to that picture. That link can be what's known as either a relative link or an absolute link. A relative link would have the picture name listed something like this: "trail_cliff.jpg" an absolute link would look something like this: "http://www.cinternet.net/~mellman/images/winter95/trail_cliff.JPG" They are the same picture, but you'll note the absolute link (the second one) includes a web address. Thus the picture can appear in your web page, and yet the actual picture file itself can be stored in some completely different location. On the practical side: In short, what I need from you is a web page that has all of its links stored at some location other than the domain host. That's why I say in the first paragraph of this letter: http://www.mellman.net/common/forwarding.html that I can't replace your ISP. mellman.net can only be a starting point. You need to have some other place where you can store pictures and other files. Chances are your ISP gives you some space. There are also sites which offer free web space (go to a portal like Yahoo and search for "free web space"). In short, here's the actual process we'll take to get you up on mellman.net: You create a web page that contains all absolute links and you send it to me by e-mail. I will create a directory with your first name, and put the page in there. If/when you want to make changes just mail them to me. In most cases I should be able to make them pretty quickly. That's it. Did I explain or confuse: Since we've never met I have no idea what your level of knowledge of the web is so I don't know if I just utterly lost you with my attempted explanation, perfectly explained your question, or just bored you silly. Why don't we do this: I'm going to list some questions. Reply with answers, and that will help me figure out what you need. Since I haven't done this before it may take a few rounds of questions. 1. Did you understand the explanations above? a. Not at all (don't understand the issues) b. Mostly (close, but you have some more questions) c. Completely (no questions, your html file is on its way) 2. Which of the following concepts are you familiar with (any or all)? a. ISP b. web host c. HTML 3. Have you created web pages before? 4. How do you plan to create the page you'll put on mellman.net? a. by hand with a text editor b. with a word processor like Microsoft Word c. with a web page creation program like Microsoft Frontpage 5. Do you currently have a web page anywhere? 6. Do you have space for web page components (pictures, other pages, etc) on some ISP or other site? I think that's it. Send me answers to those, and I'll know better how to target my answers. I'll also want to eventually know if you want to be in the directory on the main page (see www.mellman.net). Hope I didn't just knock you off your chair.