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Mike Carey (St. Eunan's, Letterkenny) developed his own website.
He shared the experience of setting up his own website by writing a number
of articles explaining how he went about it. We reproduce the articles here
as a set of lessons.
Lesson I: Getting Started
Lesson II: Building a Webpage
Lesson III: Adding Cool touches to your page
and Cool Sites
Lesson IV: Search Engines and earning money
on the internet
Chataway: Petra Madill (Transition year), Holy
Child Community School, Sallynoggin, discusses Chatrooms.
Lesson I
Hi
everybody. I'm Mike and I first got involved in the Internet about 2 years
ago and I was totally shocked when I saw the amount of information on
it! Absolutely everything was there. For example I wanted to look up a
Simpson's site and when I did, I got almost 53,167 pages on it, and that
was just the Altavista search engine! Then I got it in my house
in March and one of the first things I did was get a website on a free
homepage provider. If you want to get a www.yourhomepagename.com
site then you have to pay a small fee but you will get more visitors.
I started with Expage.com and I would advise you to do this as
well, as that is probably the easiest homepage provider for beginners.
Some other free homepage providers are: Gurlpages, Yahoo,
Geocities, Angelfire and lots more!
I started with a poll on my page and I got a huge response to that. Then
I decided to go a bit further by surfing around the net looking for HTML
codes and Java, etc. Once I got that I was flying. By this
stage I had a chatroom and midi's (songs) on it. I then
had to open a job page because I couldn't manage the site myself, so now
I also have a Vice President, an advertiser, an editor, 3 chat monitors,
a page layout producer, and a mailinglist supervisor. Now that I had my
site up and running I had to make sure my visitors enjoyed my site so
I got the best stuff I could find including graphics and awards. Now,
I have an average of 100 visitors to my site each day (which is good for
a freesite) and my visitor counter marks 1320.
Some Internet terms explained:
g2g = got to go
u = you
oic = oh I see
lol = laughing out loud
snail mail = If you have the Internet then normal mail ( you know,
with an envelope and stamp ) is referred to as ''snail mail''
www = World Wide Web
IM = Instant Messenger
After
my website I moved onto Onelist.com,
a world-wide free mailinglist provider. There you can join and create
your own mailinglist. I joined a mailinglist for true friends but I had
to unsubscribe because I was getting an amazing number of emails a day
and it ate up my whole day reading them. So then I decided to create my
own one called postcards4u and that was about people from around the world
swapping postcards. That was all well until I got an average of 10 postcards
through my ''snail mail'' mailbox every day, so I had to go and buy postcards
and stamps to send to these foreign countries! After all that I decided
to make a mailing list for teens by teens and that is where I am today.
We talk about all teen-related topics.
Freestuff sites: If you are very bored then nip over to some freestuff
sites. On these sites you can order demo CDs, mouse mats, catalogues,
pictures, etc. But sometimes (a lot of the time) you have to pay for p&p
(postage and packaging) or it is U.S. Residents Only.
Downloads: You can download games, fonts, print-outs, etc. They
can be fun but viruses can carry which can have disastrous effects.
Lesson II
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