Making your Personal HomePage

A step-by-step tutorial for USU student

1. Do Some Preparations for your VMS account.
   You have to do a little housekeeping before you create the homepage. Otherwise, it will not work.
2. Join the Workshops
   Office of Computer Services offer some free, one-hour workshops every quarter to teach you how to use the (1) VMS editor, (2) WWW browsing, (3) HTML. You MUST join these three workshops, and you are safe to skip the rest.
3. More Knowledge means More Productive
   After you have some ideas about WWW, you can enhance your HTML knowledge by reading A Beginner's Guide to HTML. If you are a serious Web designer, I strongly suggest you to read some books, so you can learn some tips and advices from the experts about Web publishing.
4. Look at other personal Homepages to get some hints.
   Making a homepage is easy, but make it looks good is another story. Be creative and beware of copyright issue.
5. How do you know your page is right?
   Just look at some bad examples, and know what is wrong. Don't make the same mistakes.
6. Register your Homepage
   To include your page in the USU official homepage, you need to register it. This takes less than a week for your page appears in the list.
7. Anounce your page
   To enable the whole world locate your page by using search engines, you need to anounce your page.
8. Decorate your page
   There are bunch of pretty, public-domain, and free bullets, backgrounds, icons, lines, etc. you can use to decorate your page without worrying about copyright violation.
9. Making Transparent GIF Background
   You can do this easily by following these steps in LView Pro (for PC).
10. How to make animated GIF?:
    This most comprehensive tutorial shows you how to make the animated GIF. Or you can simply copy them.
11. You need more information about Web design?
    You impress me. Only a few people are serious about WWW design. Then Great Website Design Tips is for you.