Make Your Own Web Page
Step 7: Going Public
Your school may or may not have an account with an Internet provider that allows you to put your Web page on a server so that other people can read it. If not, you can just keep practicing with documents on your computer's hard drive. Or, you might look into getting some free Web space for yourself or your school through an Internet service provider.
If you are able to put your page up on a server, how will anyone find it? Unless they know about your page already—and know the exact URL!
(example:"http://www.health.org/gpower")—they won't be able to visit it. Here are three ways you can give people a roadmap to your location on the information superhighway:
- Find some other Web sites that are related to your page in some way. They might be sites that deal with the same topic or are published by students your age. Write to the people who maintain these pages and ask them to check out your site. If they like it, they might add a link to your page on theirs.
- Register your site with a search engine such as Alta Vista, Lycos, WebCrawler, or Yahoo. Once you've added your URL to one of these databases, people who are interested in the general topic of your page will get a listing of your site when they do a search. For example, in Yahoo, navigate through their categories until you get to the one that best suits your page, and then click on "Add URL." You'll be asked to provide the title of your page, its URL, and a comment or short sentence that describes what's on the page. In your comment, try to include words that you think an interested person might type in as key words when doing a Yahoo search. "Jupiter facts and images" or "Book reviews by middle school students" are examples of good comments.
- Send your URL to us. We'll check out your site and add it to our Girl Power! Gallery. Be sure to tell us your exact URL, your first name and a sentence description.
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