Setting up your website

Technically, you could put everything in your website on one page. But it would take eternity to load! So break it up into different pages. Example.

page 1 index.html
page 2 photos1.html
page 3 photos2.html
page 3 photos3.html
page 4 pets.html
page 5 friends.html
page 5 work.html
page 6 mytrip.html

Build each page separately according to the lessons I posted here

The thing to remember is that you must give your guests a way to get from one page to another. There are all kinds of fancy ideas out there, but the main ones are these:

Let the visitor click on the name of the page

Let the visitor click on an image

The command to make a link to a page looks like this:

(dont forget to use the <> brackets around each of the 3 sections!)
First part of the code:
a href="http://_______________._____/_______/______.html"

Second part of the code:
The name of the webpage

Third part of the code:
/a
This is very important. It marks the end of the link!

Of you want to use an image for the visitor to click, then you type the second part of the code with the link to the graphic instead of the name of the webpage. So now the link looks like this;

(dont forget to use the <> brackets around each of the 3 sections!)
First part of the code:
"http://_______________._____/_______/______.html"

Second part of the code:
img src="button.gif"
I'm calling the image "button.gif" but it could be any photo or graphic. You could put a picture of a dog to click on to get to your dog.html page!

As for what to type in the first part of the code, it would be the exact URL (website address) of where you're sending the visitor. In the case of getting people navigated through your own website, all the addresses in the first part of the code will be exactly the same, except for the last two items.

Don't forget each of these would go in brackets <>
"http://www.geocities.com/USA/Acres/712/index.html"
"http://www.geocities.com/USA/Acres/712/photos1.html"
"http://www.geocities.com/USA/Acres/712/photos2.html"
"http://www.geocities.com/USA/Acres/712/photos3.html"
"http://www.geocities.com/USA/Acres/712/pets.html"
"http://www.geocities.com/USA/Acres/712/friends.html"
"http://www.geocities.com/USA/Acres/712/work.html"
"http://www.geocities.com/USA/Acres/712/mytrip.html"

Once you get a good navigation system figured out, just copy it and paste it on every page!

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