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EASY BUTTON FOR FREE BASIC WEB SITES In the AATF, thirty-three of our seventy- Blogger.com paper brochures. five chapters have Web sites of varying so- [www.blogger.com] phistication and states of upkeep. Advo- Myspace Myth 4: You have to be Super-geek to put cacy coordinators have been able field a [www.myspace] your page up on the Web. dozen of the fifty needed state-specific Web Web Logs (About.com) Not so. To be sure, transferring files pages for the new Advocacy Commission. [http://weblogs.about.com] (your Web page) from your computer to your As a chapter president with a Web site, Myth 2: You have to have expensive soft- Web directory on another (the server) is you can recruit more widely, get information ware to make a Web page. where you are most likely to need the ad- out to all members easily, and you know vice and help of others. Basically, your No. There are an adequate number of your chapter, not just current officers, has online computer contacts the server, giving free or inexpensive ways to make a page or an established presence on the national username, password, and other informa- a site (Netscape Composer, word process- site. If you are an advocacy coordinator with tion as called for. Once given permission, it ing software, Sausage, etc.). Here are a state-specific Web page, you have omni- transfers a copy of your Web file to the di- some sites to show you how to make simple accessible updatable information to allow rectory. However, your Internet service pro- Web pages: allies in different places to work on the vider or Web space provider will provide help Making a Web Page with Netscape Com- same rescue mission. in this, through detailed instructions, a poser (PC) This all makes sense, but an “easy but- phone helpdesk, a tech assistant’s visit to [www.polyglot.pitt.edu/how/ ton?” ...no doubt, a deceptive myth to be filed your office, or by using a Virtual Network webpagepc.doc.pdf] with that of the tooth fairy. While nothing in Control Utility to configure your software the Netscape Composer is free. If you al- technology is as simple as we would like it, right way. Many teachers I know simply work ready have a reasonably new Netscape we need to admit that our own procrastina- with tech-oriented colleagues or students. browser, it is there. If you don’t, just go to tion in the matter of an organizational Web My point is that help is around the corner, [http://browser.netscape.com] and find the page may also be the product of some and that file transfer should not hold you right browser for you. Once you have down- myths. up. These links should be of some help: loaded the Netscape browser, set it up, and Myth 1: Web space does not grow on trees; File Transfer Protocol (explanation in opened it up, your File menu should have a it is very expensive! Wikipedia) New submenu on it. Go to Composer Page [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Here are some solutions you may al- and let it open. It works almost like a word File_Transfer_Protocol] ready have, but have forgotten. How about processor, with a tool bar, etc. Secure Shell (explanation in Wikipedia) your own Internet service provider (Charter, Tutorial - Making a Web page with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSH] Road Runner, AOL)? Check with them now. Microsoft Word You may already be paying for a Web direc- [www.asa.edu.py/tch_work/technol- File Transfer (a Google directory) [www.google.com/Top/ tory even though you are not using it. How ogy/webpage_word] ComputersSoftware/Networking/ about your institution’s Web site? If you are Microsoft Word is not free, but many an advocacy coordinator, how about your people have it. Essentially, you set up a word Fil_Transfer] Free FTP client software for Windows AATF chapter Web site? Will your state lan- processor page the way you want a Web [www.coreftp.com] guage association host an announcement page to look, using tool bars to make Web or advocacy page if you are a member? addresses into interactive links, adding a I should also point out that you can use Internet Explorer for file transfer (FTP) to a What about free Web space? If you don’t splash of color and fooling with font sizes. Web directory. mind a few banner ads, here are some Then you use the File menu command to known individual free Web space provid- Save As an HTML page. A number of word FTP procedure for Internet Explorer [www.sjpc.org/internet/IEftp.html] ers: processing programs have a Save As HTML No “myth-take” about it, creating and Freewebs function, so don’t give up if you don’t have a [http://freewebs.com] slick, recent Office application. Here are maintaining a Web page that will support your role in the AATF is not impossibly hard Geocities two more ways to make Web sites for free. or expensive. [www.geocities.com] PageKits (free Web templates) 50megs free web hosting service [www.elated.com/pagekits] Tennessee Bob Peckham AATF Vice President [www.50megs.com] WebPlus 6 - Free Web Site Design & [[email protected]] Netfirms free Web hosting Publishing Software [www.netfirms.com/web-hosting- [www.freeserifsoftware.com/soft- free] ware/WebPlus/default.asp] If you want to shop around, here are Myth 3: Nobody will come to a site that is not some directories of free Web space provid- maxed out in bells and whistles. ers: Free Webspace (directory) Actually, the most used Web sites have [www.freewebspace.net] a fairly basic appearance. Furthermore, if Free Web Hosting (directory) you want to make a Web page for organiza- [www.free-webhosts.com] tional information or tasks, you need to keep 100 best free Web space providers (di- it simple. The more complex, the less you rectory) will want to update it, and the more things [www.100best-free-web-space.com] can go wrong, etc. You should be able to A blog solution may bring you free space, copy and paste text updates on to your some Web making tools, and interactive pages, and your readers should be able to possibilities; but there are also ads. copy text from you Web site to paste into 10 Vol. 32, No. 1 (September 2006).

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