Personal Web Pages for Non-Geeks

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Personal Web Pages for Non-Geeks

• Demystify the process of creating a web site

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Why a personal web page?

• To promote your career
• Having a web page shows youre with it
• Provides assurance that you can keep up with the
  times
• Provides a way to market yourself
• Prospective employers can get a glimpse of who
  you are
• Before calling you
• Following an interview

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Why a personal web page?

• Augment your formal resume
• Expand on professional activities
• Show who you are outside work
• Just for fun
• Share photos and events with family friends
• Share your space to support others

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What should be on a page?

• Examples
• http//www.scottkane.com/
• http//members.aol.com/beilers/
• http//www.jreilers.org/
• http//www.eilers.org/

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Scotts web page is all business. Its sole
intent is to project professionalism to those who
may hire him.
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Professional stuff emphasized
Other stuff here also
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Important stuff
This page is mostly for fun. It also provides a
way for family to see whats happening at our
house.
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My nephew Aaron has a technically more
sophisticated web page. Multiple levels. Aaron
likely developed his page by writing code. His
father and Uncle Jim most certainly did not. We
used non-geek tools to do the job.
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Basics

• You will need
• A service to host you page
• Many ISPs (Internet Service Provider) offer
  hosting
• AOL
• ATTBI used to bet Comcast does also
• If you use a small provider, check with them
• Independent hosting services
• More about these later

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Basics

• You will need
• A means to develop/edit your page
• Some providers offer templates
• Some offer development tools
• There are development tools available elsewhere,
  some free on the WWW others for sale on the web
  or in stores
• Tools range from simple to very sophisticated

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Basics

• You will need
• A means to upload your page from your home/office
  PC to your host
• If using ISP templates, this may be automatic
• If not automatic, it may just require a mouse
  click
• Some upload tools might require a setup for first
  use

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Getting Started

• Select a method that fits you
• We will examine two options
• Hosting service with cookie-cutter templates
• Free web hosting
• There are /- for each
• You get what you pay for

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Method 1

• A No-Brainer, but with a price

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A No-Brainer

• Gray Hair Management page
• http//www.grayhairmanagement.com/
• 250.00 one-time charge
• Page templates provided
• Includes two-year domain registration
  (www.scottkane.com)
• Domain registrar will bill for renewal
• Domain fees are currently about 10 a year

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Some Notes on Domains

• scottkane.com/
• Scotts domain is his first and last name
• eilers.org/
• Domains are first come/ first served
• My nephew Aaron beat me the punch
• jreilers.org/
• I found that my two initials last name was
  available
• members.aol.com/beilers/
• Brother Bruce doesnt have his own domain

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Some Notes on Domains

• How do you know if a domain name is available?
• http//www.checkdomain.com

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Domain Cautions

• Owning a domain may raise some privacy issues
• It is possible to search for a domains owner
• May learn name, address, phone, email
• May yield some email SPAM
• Personally, I have not found this burdensome
• But Im rather tolerant

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Method 2

• Free web page
• Nothing is completely free
• Free pages are supported by the hosts selling
  advertising

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Free Web Page

• http//www.geocities.com/jameseilers/
• http//geocities.yahoo.com/

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Fill out the forms as required
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Lets try it!

• Is there a volunteer?

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Editing your page
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Select Edit existing page Choose your page from
the pull down list
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Editing your page

• The Wizard will lead you through the same steps
  used to create the page.

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Editing your page

• Ready to graduate from the Wizard?
• Small caution
• If you step up, you may not return to the Wizard
  for editing

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When youre ready for the next level, you can
customize your page with Yahoo PageBuilder
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Editing Your Page

• If there is interest from the group we will have
  a second session covering PageBuilder and other
  more advanced editing tools.

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Questions/Comments?

• James R. Eilers, CPIM
• 740 South Ardmore
• Villa Park, IL 60181
• 630/833-6664
• james.eilers_at_jreilers.org
• http//jreilers.org