OVERVIEW
Construction Process:
- When you are Macintosh literate, the simplest way
to begin creating your website is to work
off the DESKTOP on the Macintosh rather than off a machine that
is serving your site to the world. This allows you to ignore the complexities
of networks and file transfers until you know you have something that
functions. Just remember DO NOT use spaces in file names and DO
use proper file extensions (.html for pages, .gif and .jpg for images)
or you will be sorry when you put your site on the server.
- In order to put images onto a page, the images have
to be scanned and saved properly. You will probably use Photoshop
to do this. Images must be in one of 2 FILE FORMATS at 72 ppi and
should stay less than about 40K in size once compressed. Both of the
formats below compress, or make as small and fast as possible,
your image files. All images should be made from RGB color or Grayscale
image files.
.jpg files can be saved directly from the
RGB version by going to MenuBar->File->Save As
.gif files must first be
switched into Indexed Color Files by going to MenuBar->Mode->Indexed
Color and choosing Adaptive and Diffusion as Options (experiment
with the # of bits to find the lowest number that leaves you with
a tolerable image). Then they can be saved as .gif files (CompuServe
gif).
Images and .html files should be in the same directory/folder to show
up on the page. Otherwise, Netscape will tell you that the file is
not found.
- Once you have created a site (one or many pages) and
worked out its bugs, you can ship it to your
web server.
Once your page is on the server, test out all the links
to be sure that they work. If they don't and you are not sure why
they don't, try submitting your URL for the page to weblint.
This can often tell you where the problem is.
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