OnlineHost: Copyright 1996 America Online, Inc. CJ Lorri: Good Sunday to all of you!! I am CJ Lorri your host today. Today we have a Guest Host in ANSWERMAN....CJ Grizzly, a member of AOLs Internet Connection Team. He promises to help us make our OWN Home Page, the easy way with Personal Publisher. Hiya! CJ Grizzly. Welcome To Answerman. CJ Grizzly: Hiya everyone! :D Chello there Lorri......happy Sunday to you as well! :D CJ Lorri: I want to make my own homepage are you gonna help me VBG CJ Grizzly: Well, Lorri...hopefully after this, you'll be up and running with your new Home Page in no time :D CJ Lorri: I cant wait :) CJ Grizzly: First the Personal Publishing area is actually two separate (but related) areas: My Home Page and My Place. CJ Grizzly: My Home Page is an HTML 2.0 compliant, automatic Web Page creator. Using it relieves you from the need to understand HTML (HyperText Markup Language), the code required to create web pages. My Home Page, although unable to offer some of the neat little HTML 3.0 elements, is definately a great way for a novice to create a Hom Page on the World Wide Web automagically! CJ Grizzly: My Place (keyword MY PLACE) is disk space on AOL that you can use to store files and information (such as graphics, text files, programs, etc). For you more advanced users, this is your FTP site! You have 2 megabytes of disk space available per screen name (that means up to 10mb per account :D). All files that are uploaded through Personal Publisher can be accessed by going here and viewing your private directory. If you want to create a simple page with a standardized layout and or don't know HTML, use My Home Page to create your page. If you are a more advanced user and understand HTML, you can create your own Web Page using an HTML editor and upload it and whatever graphics your page references to My Place. How To: Before starting on a example, let's talk about what is on a siimple Web Page: - Some text - An image - A link to another web site. Start with Keyword: PP (Windows Only). Select 'Create/Edit My Home Page' When you first create your Web Page, it will show the information about you from the you AOL online profile. After that, you will be able to select who can view the pages (AOL only, AOL and Internet, etc ....) Below that you will see a box for some text. Type something in there. You can also define a link to another page (or even an AOL keyword). Put you favorite Web Site in there! You can add as many as you want, but just start with one! CJ Grizzly: Getting an image on the page is a little trickier. It is actually a two step process. You must first upload the graphic to your My Place area (remember I said earlier they were related?). Then you can point to it in your Web Page. To upload the file select upload multimedia file. It will prompt you for the path and filename of the file you wish to upload (usually a .GIF or .JPG file) and then upload it. It will automatically go into your My Place area. Then it will show up as one of the available files and you can reference the image on your Web Page. CJ Grizzly: Once you are done, you can see what it will look like by selecting View Changes. If you like what you see, then Save it. Otherwise you can Continue Changes. CJ Grizzly: Your page can be accessed by others at the following address: http://home.aol.com/ So my page is at http://home.aol.com/cjgrizzly If you would like to see what can be done using Personal Publisher, pull up the keyword prompt and type in my URL. CJ Grizzly: Among other things, there are examples of the following there : -an image -standard text -links to AOL keywords -links to AOL chat rooms -a client side image map (the images are the links - the background will return you to the same page) -a link to my email address -the AOL counter -digits.com's free counter (available from http://www.digits.com/web_counter/ CJ Lorri: I have a question from PowerFade..... Question: what about Mac users?? CJ Grizzly: Well, unfortunately, the Personal Publishing area(keyword PP) is only available to Windows users at this time. However, you still can make a Home Page(s) If you are familiar with HTML and have created your own page offline, then you can upload it along with the associated files to keyword MY PLACE The one *major* difference here is that by using MY PLACE, you will have a different URL to your page. Instead of it being http://home.aol.com/, it will be http://members.aol.com//filename.html .....where "filename.html" is the name of your homepage CJ Grizzly: If you aren't familiar with HTML, I would suggest a few online sites to visit.Keyword HTML right here on AOL.The National Center for Supercomputing Applications: http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu and the W3 Consortium : http://www.w3.org I, myself, have a page available from my ISP at http://www.phoenix.net/~brhodes/web_creation.html or you can go to my Home page at http://www.phoenix.net/~brhodes :D CJ Grizzly: If you are a reader, here are a few of the books I would recommend (by no means all of them) The HTML Sourcebook - by Ian S. Graham, Foundations of World Wide Web Programming with HTML & CGI - courtesy of the Programmers Press, and the HTML Manual of Style - by Larry Aronson CJ Lorri: S Gates asks.... Question: In HTML documents in my place, where do you tell the browser the image is. ex CJ Grizzly: You would put the entire path to the image file between the parenthesis For example : if you have your home page and image in the same directory, you would put where "filename.gif" is the name of the image If the image is in a *sub directory* of the directory that your home page is located in, you would use where "images" is the subdirectory and "filename.gif" is the image name. CJ Lorri: K9CAPERS has the same questions as I do Grizz.... Question: How does my aol home page get listed with Internet search engines CJ Grizzly: Well, there are a couple of ways to do that.....First of all, you could just sit and wait for them to find you, but I don't think you'd want to wait that long....By far the best way to have your URL "cataloged" by the different search engines would be for you to submit it yourself. The most handy way to do this, that I've found, is to use the Submit-it service at http://www.submit-it.com . Using this URL you can submit your URL to multiple search engines at once...and and it doesn't cost a dime :D CJ Lorri: Rithisak asks.... Question: How much space does AOL allow for home pages? Is there any CGI capability? CJ Grizzly: As a member of AOL, you are limited to 2 megabytes of space per screen name, However, as you may know, you can have up to 5 screen names per account, so with some careful linking, you can utilize up to the full 10 megabytes available to your account. As for CGI scripting, unfortunately it's isn't allowed currently (due to security issues I believe for one). You do, however, have the ability to use the AOL counter (one per screen name) and NCSA formatted client-side image maps I believe there is more CGI scripts in the works, but I'm afraid Idon't have any info on that. CJ Grizzly: One thing you can do, if you want to use a guest book or a form of some kind is to either send it via mail, or reference a CGI script on another server. To submit your form via email, you would need to use the following
element CJ Grizzly: Once you receive mail from that form, you will notice numerous streams of "gibberish", known as character entities and references. I've set up a reference page that could help you decode the form submissions at http://members.aol.com/cjgrizzly/character_entities.html CJ Lorri: Evanbooks asks..... Question: If I build a web page via AOL and change internet service can the web page come with me? CJ Grizzly: Yuppers, you sure can! If you've built it yourself using HTML, then you just need to change any *absolute* links that you might have... IF you have built it using the Personal Publishing Service (keyword PP), then just goto your page via the URL, select FILE from the pull down menu, then SAVE and you'll have the copy there. All of the images that you have uploaded via Personal Publisher will be available in the private directory of your home directory (keyword MY PLACE) CJ Lorri: ScarletPu has a question...... Question: Sorry I'm late. What's the approximate cost of a web page? CJ Grizzly: It's free....free....free....free...free :D (unless, of course, you are using Personal Publisher....then you are only charged for your connect time to AOL) Question: What format is the AOL server, NCSA? Can we do imagemaps? CJ Lorri: thats a question from S Gates1 Grizzly CJ Grizzly: AOL's server is running the NCSA httpd (HyperText transfer Protocol daemon)...Image maps can be done on AOL's server provided that they are in the NCSA format :D For more information on using them via AOL, feel free to E-mail me directly :D CJ Lorri: LFrieling has a comment :) Comment: the person who maintains/writes submit-it.com is also a really nice person CJ Grizzly: LFrieling : With offering that great of a sevice, I'm sure! :D For those of you that came in late, http://www.submit-it.com is a way to submit the URL of your pages to many different search engines on the Web at once! CJ Lorri: Thank You All for your wonderful questions and comments. A big round of Applause for our guest.....CJ Grizzly, thanks so much. I know we will be seeing many more homepages after this wonderful conference. If any of you have further questions check out Keyword ANSWERMAN. Good Bye and enjoy the rest of your weekend :) ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::clapping:::::::::::::::::::::::::: CJ Grizzly: Have a great weekend everyone...thanks for stopping by! :D OnlineHost: Copyright 1996 America Online, Inc.OnlineHost: Copyright 1996 America Online, Inc. CJ RichG: Welcome all to Answerman...Tonight the best Windows sites. Take it away Grizzly. CJ Grizzly: Hiya everyone! :D CJ Grizzly: Well, I assume by you all being here, that you want to hear some of the Windows sites that you just can't pass up.....well, here goes! :D CJ Grizzly: Stroud's Consummate Winsock Applications - http://www.stroud.com If you have your AOL software set up properly, this site if for you!. It contains literally tons of Winsock applications that you can use on the Internet (with AOL's winsock.dll). The great part about this site is that it offers reviews of the applications that are available, and from what I've seen, they are right on the money! If, by any chance, you don't have your software set up to run third party applications, check out keyword WINSOCK for information! :D CJ Grizzy: #2 CSUSM Windows World: http://coyote.csusm.edu/cwis/winworld/winworld.html Housed at California State University, San Marcos, this Windows shareware archive is a great one stop shopping area for you. Regardless if you are running Windows 3.x, Windows 95, or Windows NT, tons of applications are waiting for you there :) CJ Grizzly: #3 NetEx Windows 95 Software Archive: http://www.netex.net/w95/index.html .This is the home of the LearnKey Windows 95 Expert Forum. If you are looking for training, software, discussion groups, or tips and tricks from the Windows 95 experts, this is the place for you! CJ Grizzly: #4 Windows Magazine: http://www.winmag.com Windows Magazine's web site contains lots of good information from the magazine of the same name, including some online articles (not all of them, after all, they want you to buy the magazine), pointers to software featured in the magazine, and hot news that isn't yet in print. A very useful site for the Windows user who must know it all. CJ Grizzly: #5 Windows FAQ: http://ancho.ucs.indiana.edu/FAQ/Windows This site is a huge archive of frequently asked questions and answers about Windows, everything from printing problems to application questions to games to those nasty little General Protection Faults. Dozens of common questions are handled here. If you have a Windows related question, this is the site to see. Speaking of General Protection Faults, if you are having a problem with them while running the AOL software, check out keyword GPF (it's a free area that will tell you what is causing the problem) CJ Grizzly: #6 Windows on the World: http://pclt.cis.yale.edu/pclt/winworld/winworld.htm This site, located at Yale University, is a great place for information on adding Internet access to PCs. There aren't alot of links to software archives, or anything of the like, but if you are curious about Windows (as well as other Operating Systems) and the beginning of the Internet, I CJ Grizzly: #7 Inside Windows 95 : http://www.cobb.com/w95/ The Cobb Group, author's of some fascinating and informative literature, brings you this monthly journal of tips and techniques for Windows 95. Although you do need to subscribe to receive this information, it's well well worth a few extra minutes. Not only do they offer inside tips to Windows 95, but also Windows 3.x, Windows NT, and tons of other Windows applications. CJ Grizzly: #8 The one stop Windows 95 Site: http://www.win95.com/win95users.html If you have any questions regarding Windows 95, or if you have just made the jump up from Windows 3.x , this site is for you. This site has everything you could possibly want to know about Windows 95! And more than likely some that you didn't! ;D CJ Grizzly: #9 Windows 95 Software Archive: http://coredump.fiu.edu/win95/ This isn't by any means a large site for Windows 95 applications, but it has some great links to Windows 95 tips and tricks as well as some utility packages and software archives. CJ Grizzly: #10 Windows NT Interactive Archive: http://www.voicenet.com/~eib69/ This is a great page for all of you Windows NT fans out there, but be aware, for best viewing, you must use Netscape Navigator v.2.0 32bit or higher (running Windows 95 or Windows NT) although most can be seen using the 16bit version. This site (although stated otherwise) is more for expirenced Windows NT users and offers some great information including 3.51 workstation and server news Lkobler: I'm looking for the forum entitled "15 Internet Sites every Windows user needs...is this it? CJ Grizzly: Lkobler : sure is...I'm up to #11 at the moment...but the transcript will be available tomorrow at keyword ANSWERMAN -> TALK WITH ANSWERMAN -> CONFERENCE TRANSCRIPTS CJ Grizzly: #11 The Windows Internet Guide: http://twig.hypercon.com This site is a great place to look for information regarding Windows and includes monthly as well as weekly articles on information, help, and entertainment specifically for people who use Windows and the Internet. CJ Grizzly: #12 Microsoft's Home Page: http://www.microsoft.com The name says it all, but it's definately a good source of information on Windows 3.x, Windows 95, and Windows NT. :D CJ Grizzly: That's all of the *Web* sites that I have for you tonight, however, I'd like to point out a few other great sources of information online. First of all, if you haven't used the Internet's Global Message Board, USENET, I would suggest that you goto keyword NEWSGROUPS or USENET and run a search for "Windows". There are literally hundreds of newsgroups available covering topics such as Windows advocacy ....Windows 3.x, NT and 95 setup.....winsock applications, etc...one of my favorites is comp.os.ms-windows.announce. Another broad source of Windows information is right here on AOL......keyword WIN95 (for Windows 95 issues), keyword WINDOWS (for the Windows Forum) and keyword WIN 500 (for the Windows Shareware 500) :D CJ Grizzly: Well, folks, I guess we'll be wrapping it up then...thanks for stopping by and I'll see y'all on Sunday...If you have any questions, stop by keyword ANSWERMAN and post them to the message board! :D MoroccoTan: Thanks, y'all :) CJ RichG: Thank you all for coming...and thanks Grizzly for the wealth of information. Bye all.....Have a great weekend CJ Grizzly: Thanks RichG, Madisn....have a Grrrrreat weekend! :D CJ Madisn: Good night, Grizzly!