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FIGURE 17-20 Website for the Yahoo! GeoCities free web-hosting service Site statistics Your site will have an automatic counter to track the number of visitors. Add-ons and program extensions Once you get your site up and running, you can add advanced preprogrammed features—stock quotes, games, news headlines, clip art, a guest book, email forms, countdown clocks, and much more. FTP access Transfer files using your favorite file transfer protocol (FTP) program. FTPs are discussed in the next section. File Manager This software allows you to create, edit, upload, delete, and maintain your files in directories and subdirectories. 344 How To Do Everything with Your Scanner Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark. Signing up for Yahoo GeoCities: Your Obligations In exchange for the use of the free Yahoo! web-hosting services, you are asked to provide registration information about yourself, and you give Yahoo! the right to place some of its banner advertising on your website. They target the banner advertising that appears on your site based on the information you give them. You are not asked to provide a lot of intrusive personal information. As with most free web-based services, you are automatically placed on some advertising lists unless you deselect the check box shown in Figure 17-21. Yahoo! also allows you to specify the types of advertising you want to receive. FIGURE 17-21 Deselect the check box to avoid being placed on Yahoo! mailing lists. Deselect CHAPTER 17: Adding Scanned Images to Your Web Pages and Email 345 17 Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark. Creating a Yahoo! Web Page Once you’re registered with Yahoo!, you have access to their free web creation and editing software. In fact, you have three types to choose from. Depending on your level of experience and desire for control over the web-editing process, you can select from one of the following: Yahoo! PageWizards This is probably the way to go if you’re a beginner to web design. Step-by-step instructions help you build your page quickly using a wizard format, as shown in Figure 17-22. FIGURE 17-22 The Yahoo! PageWizards are great for beginners. 346 How To Do Everything with Your Scanner Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark. Yahoo! PageBuilder Once you’ve established your site, you can use this straightforward and easy-to-master editing program to add graphics, backgrounds, and music. Advanced Editor If you’re experienced at web design and are familiar with hypertext markup language (HTML), you can cut and paste the code you create yourself. Viewing a Yahoo! Web Page Yahoo! recommends that you name the first page of your site “index.html” and save it. After doing so, you can view your site on the Web immediately, by using the following naming convention to find the URL for the site: www.geocities.com/yourYahoo!ID The URL for your home page can always be found at the top right corner of the Yahoo! GeoCities home page. Yahoo! also sends you an email telling you your URL. Uploading Edited Pages and Scanned Photos to Your Yahoo! Account Yahoo! allows you to use your own text editor and to upload pages to its server using the PageWizards or by accessing the Upload Files option from the PageBuilder File menu. You can also upload your own image files to your web page. Yahoo! provides you with a file transfer program called Easy Upload. Alternatively, you can use a file transfer protocol (FTP) program of your own choosing. FTP programs are discussed in the next section. Consider Microsoft FrontPage for Your Website Microsoft FrontPage is the most popular web design software on the market today. It’s designed for use by both beginners and professionals. FrontPage uses drawing tools similar to the Microsoft PowerPoint program. It also includes templates and web content that you can add and use to develop your site to make the pages appear more professional and dynamic. If you’re familiar with HTML CHAPTER 17: Adding Scanned Images to Your Web Pages and Email 347 17 Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark. editing, there are lots of streamlining tools to help you format in HTML and its progeny language, XML (extensible markup language). The program even includes website management tools that store data about who accesses and uses your site. This section tells you a little bit about what you need to know to get started using this program. The program has sophisticated capabilities and comes with an excellent online manual and Help feature. You’ll need to consult these resources carefully if you plan to follow through on designing a website with FrontPage. This chapter takes a quick look at how to ■ Install the related Internet tools you need to use the program ■ Create and save a home page ■ Add text to your home page ■ Upload scanned photos to your home page Install the Related Windows Internet Tools Before Using FrontPage If you’re going to use this program to create a web page, you should first install two related Internet tools. Microsoft’s Web Publishing wizard and Personal Web Server both come with Windows 98, Windows 2000, and Microsoft Internet Explorer. You can load these tools from the original program CDs if you haven’t already installed them. The Web Publishing wizard is a tool designed to help you upload pages to your ISP or WPP. After you have created your web page using FrontPage, follow the steps provided by the wizard to upload the pages. The wizard is effective for most ISPs and WPPs, but occasionally you might encounter a glitch. When this happens, you should call the WPP, and they can talk you through the process of uploading the web pages you’ve created. The Microsoft Personal Web Server tool allows your PC to mimic a web server. Using this tool, you can create and test web pages on your own PC before you publish them on the Web by uploading them to a server maintained by your ISP or WPP. Creating and Saving a Home Page with FrontPage The first step in launching your own website is creating a home page. It’s the first page visitors see when they come to your site. Once you’ve created a home page, it’s easy to create links to other pages you set up using the same tools and procedures you used for creating your home page. 348 How To Do Everything with Your Scanner Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark. . upload, delete, and maintain your files in directories and subdirectories. 344 How To Do Everything with Your Scanner Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark. Signing. you an email telling you your URL. Uploading Edited Pages and Scanned Photos to Your Yahoo! Account Yahoo! allows you to use your own text editor and to upload pages to its server using the PageWizards. a quick look at how to ■ Install the related Internet tools you need to use the program ■ Create and save a home page ■ Add text to your home page ■ Upload scanned photos to your home page Install