PHOTOGRAPHY AND GRAPHICS BY JAY BOERSMA

Getting Started

The amazing thing about web page creation is how preposterously simple it is to do. It truly brings the ability to "publish" into the hands of anyone with Internet access and a willingness to learn by a little trial and error. If it were rocket science, there wouldn't be so many more web pages than there are rockets.

Web page creation doesn't even require expensive software. To get started all you need is a browser (which you have if you are reading this) and a text editor such as SimpleText (included with Mac) or Notepad (included with Windows).

The basic procedure is:

1. Launch both the text editor and browser
2. Create some HTML "code" in the text editor
3. Save the file with an .html suffix.
4. Open this .html file with the browser to view it as it will appear on the web.
5. Go back to the text editor to add more content or make changes
6. Save the file again.
7. Go back to the browser and click Reload or Refresh to see how the changes look.

That's it: type/save/reload, type/save/reload over and over until you reach perfection - or as close to perfection as you want to get.

The first time you do it, it's like magic. After you've been doing it a few years, well, it's still kind of like magic.