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Building a philosophy free site on a free host continued...

 

Once you have made one page you will want to make others and link them together. A general rule of thumb in web design is that your page shouldn't be longer than three screens. That is, your vistors shouldn't have to scroll down more that three times the length of their computer screen. Actually, when you read about getting your sites a good listing on search engines, you'll find it's a case of the more pages the better. So it's probably best to keep your pages down to around 1.5 screens.

To make your second page, open the file manager on geocites and click new.

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When you get to the html editor, call your new page something relevant - like sartre.htm (or something like that.) Remember that all webpages must end the filename with .htm or .html (either will do). Now create the page that you want.

Linking one philosophy page to another

To link one page to another all you have to do is use the <a href="page.htm">?????</a> tag. You need to replace page.htm with the filename of the page you want to link to and ????? with the text you want displayed on the page. By default, browsers display links as underlined and in blue.

One link at the bottom of this page is called "previous" and it links this page to the previous page. The code for this link is:

<a href="beginner-sites.htm"><< previous</a>

So far you should have created a page called index.htm and another called (for example) sarte.htm. To link your index page to the sarte page you must put <a href="sarte.htm">next</a> on the index page. To link back, you must put <a href="index.htm">back</a>

Have a look at this example go to File on your browser and select View Source this will show you the html code for this page. You will see the <a href> tag in action.

If you want to create a link to a page on another website, you need to put the full URL in the <a href="http://..."> tag. So to link to this site you'd need to write the tag like this:

<a href="http://www.philosophry.com">link text</a>

This will link to the homepage of this site. If you want to link to a particular page you will need to link to the full address for that page. So to link to this particular page you'd write it like this:

<a href="http://www.philosophry.com/beginner-sites-02.htm">link text</a>

 

What we've learned so far

Let's pretend we're on an American sitcom and see what we've learnt. We now know how to use the following tags:

<title> </title>
puts a title on your page
<h1> </h1>
puts a heading on your page
<p> </p>
seperates texts into paragraphs
<a href="page.htm">???</a>
creates links

Which means we can now create a simple, if visually bland, website. See this example

 

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