Your Virtual Home
Welcome Webmasters and Webmasters to be. We have a large topic to cover in a
few minutes.
My agenda includes: Resources, Contents, Angelfire and Marketing
Resources - Computer access, email, web site provider can all be
free when you utilize computer access at the New York Public Library, attain
free email and a free provider. First register for email. For simplicity
sake I'm using the Angelfire URL (on the handout I have for you, more
are listed.)
Contents - You are now ready to register for a web page. However, before
you sit down to create your web page it is a good idea, (especially if
you are using a computer with limited time) to decide what you want to
include. Look at other web pages - go to District 46 web site and look at
links of clubs in our district.
Include the following: Club Name; Contact person (name
and email); Meeting time and place; Information about Toastmasters; Link
to District 46; Directions to meeting; Link to Toastmasters International.
Return to Angelfire home page and read rules. There are 10 conditions
ie. no advertising for pay - no pornography.
Angelfire - After you agree to these conditions, you are ready to
register for a web page. Click on registration and follow directions.
Upon completion - you will be told to go to your email to obtain a
password - print this. You can now go to your homepage, using this
password. I suggest the first thing you do is to change your
password to something you will remember. Be sure when you chose a home
page name, it is what you want as you cannot change this. Let it
relate to your club name. All Angelfire URL's begin:
https://www.angelfire.com/*SA/nameyouchoose *SA=two letter State
Abbreviation
Creating Web Site - You are now ready to create your web page. There are
a dozen steps to follow.
1 Select EDIT page - This will do a good deal of "coding" for you.
2 Background - text color and visited link color.
3 Image - Angelfire offers dozens, unfortunately none relate to speakers
(I chose none.)
4 Page Header - make it related to your club name and include Toastmasters.
5 Lists - these are bulleted items - you can head the list with a title.
6 Link list - helpful or interesing sites you want to refer people to see
(two columns - title for viewers to see and the other to indicate the URL.
7 Text area - Here is text only, any features such as centering, bold, italics,
underline and even a line return must be coded by you. My handout I lists
a link for HTML codes - it is excellent and comprehensive. (Angelfire also
has a help link.)
8 Counter - allows you to see how many people visit your site. Angelfire does
the coding.
9 Order of image, list, link list, and text area.
10 View - check spelling, appearance, and links. 11 Save (on disk). 12 Submit.
Your Web Site is NOT limited to 1 page - you are allowed 5 megobytes,
this includes numerous pages, particularly if you do not use your own graphics.
Marketing - Add to your Signature in Email; Put on business cards;
Advertise in Toastmaster newsgroup and on-line Toastmaster club; List on
all club Public Relations.
given at workshop by Paula Horwitz, AbleTMB May 1998
Visuals included listings of significant data and handout is listed
below
Hand Out Web Site Resources
Helpful URL's
Free Email
Hotmail http://www.hotmail.com
Angelfire http://email.angelfire.com
Yahoo http://mail.yahoo.com
Excite http://www.excite.com
Netaddress http://www.netaddress.com
Free Providers
Angelfire http://www.angelfire.com
Geocities http://www.geocities.com
Tripod http:///www.tripod.com
Delphi http://www.delphi.com
Free HTML
http://sst.lanl.gov/help/html_writing.html
also available is a help link from Angelfire
*URL's have no spaces and are case sensitive
Toastmaster Links
Blue Ribbon https://www.angelfire.com/ny/BlueRibbonTM
District 46 http://www.district 46.org
Toastmasters International http://www.toastmasters.org
Contents - Club Name; Contact person (name and email); Meeting time;
Information about Toastmasters; Meeting place; Link to District 46;
Directions to meeting; Link to Toastmasters International.**Decide what you
want to include before going to computer
Angelfire - Registering - Obtain email account; Read Rules; Click on
register - follow instructions; Go to your email for password (assigned to
your email) I suggest you print this; Go to angelfire home page, click
on login (using assigned password); I Suggest you now change
password to something you will remember - Do this by going to utilites
and clicking on the middle box change password; Page Name -
relate to club name. All Angelfie names begin:
https://www.angelfire.com/SA*/nameyouchoose *SA two letter state
abbreviation
Creating Web Site
1 Edit page - Do NOT use Advanced page;
2 Background; 3 Image; 4
Page Header; 5 List; 6 Link list; 7 Text area; 8 Counter; 9 Order of image,
list, link list, and text area; 10 View - check spelling, appearance, and
links; 11 Save (on disk); 12 Submit
Marketing - Add to your Signature in Email; Put on business cards
;Advertise in TM newsgroup and TM club; List on all club Public Relations.
by Paula Horwitz, AbleTMB; May 1998; brtm@rocketmail.com
Basic Manual Speeches
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