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I didn't think it would be possible for me to write one of these pages. With a lot of patience and a lot of help from friends, I obviously made it through. It's not just for the brainiacs, professors, graduate students, or computer gurus, it's for everyone. Give it a try, no one needs to see what you're writing until you're done and happy. Make all the mistakes and write whatever you want. I took all of my info from Teach Yourself Web Publishing with HTML In a Week. Published by Sams Publishing, 201 West 103rd Street, Indianapolis Indiana 46290. I have the manual, and you're welcome to have a look at it.
The Department has a HTML help page, and an option to have an automatic page created for you. It's fully interactive, you only have to answer a few questions right there on your screen.
The Department's HTML page. I think that's all you'll need, but here's a few more sites.
The following HTML documents came from the Web Page Construction kit I bought and might offer some more help.
Under Samples go to HTML Quick Reference for a list of commands. The Icons is a list of places where you can spice up you page with Icons, Bars, etc.
I found a cool place for backgrounds.
You can add your own pictures by scanning them on the Fourth floor and converting them to either GIF or JPG. I would be more than happy to show you how. You can even use your Word Perfect, MS Works, MS word, etc. graphics or make your own. As long as they're in the GIF or JPG format, they'll show.
There are several conversion utilities, but the one I used and probably will be able to help the most on is Paint Shop Pro. Instead of making an automatic link to download it, I linked to the address for the shareware versions. This way you can decide on which version will better suit your needs.
Another way to get going on writing your own page is to find someone's page you like, and view the source. I'm not saying plagiarize, a lot of time and effort go into writing a page and we want our pages to reward our efforts by being different than anyone else's, but you can see how something was done.
I want to stress that writing a page isn't too difficult to be done by mere mortal people. Give it a try and if you need any help I'm sure you can find it, either from me or a ton of helpful people here in the Department. Any questions or comments e-mail me. Rich Kindler