Your Site
 Here
you will find tips, tricks, and what-not for making and/or
improving your own CATS site. We'll start with places
you can get space to make your site:
Name: Geocities - Rating:
*
Tripod - **
Freeservers - ****
Angelfire - ***
Xoom - ***
How 'bout some great programs to help make your site?
(Note: not all of these are free, but all are good! Some
require knowledge of HTML)
Claris HomePage (I use
this)
Adobe PageMill
Adobe GoLive (expensive, but
oh-so-cool and waaay pro)
Arachnophilia (free,
but requires HTML)
Netscape Composer (comes with
Navigator)
Microsoft FrontPage (comes
with Explorer)
Now a basic list of do's and don'ts when creating your
site (very important):
Do:
Organize your site with invisible tables
Provide easy navigation links/buttons
Make your text easy to read
Create a fast-loading first page
Indent your text
Stick to one alignment
Don't (please!):
Use background images or colors that make the text hard to
read
Give your tables thick borders
WRITE IN ALL CAPS
WrItE eVeRy oThEr LeTtEr In CaPs
Crowd your text on the edge of the page
Crowd your page with graphics that make it take forever to
load
Mix alignments (either center it all, or don't center any of
it)
As for graphics, well, I can make you some for free, or
else, Jellylorum. I mean, Jellylorum's site has some good
graphics ready-made that you can download.
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