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Using AOL's 1-2-3 Publish Do you want to create your web site on AOL? Not sure where to start? Then read Kai Chandler’s two part guide to creating a home page with AOL’s new 1-2-3 Publish All about 1-2-3 Publish At the heart of the web is the hypertext markup language or HTML. Many web designers speak HTML as if it’s their native language but most of us use a program that generates HTML such as AOL’s own free AOL Press or commercial programs like Microsoft Front Page, Allaire HomeSite or Macromedia Dreamweaver. If you want to create a page on the web in the shortest possible time then 1-2-3 Publish is for you. There’s no software to buy or download as it’s all run from AOL. Here’s what you do:
Select Keyword 123 Publish Step Two Select the type of page you want to create: the list of templates ranges from My Art Gallery, to Cooking – twelve choices in all but a bit of a limitation if you want to do something different. Still, it’s a start and you can always change it later. Each template contains half a dozen related styles. Step Three Here’s where you can start to become creative – why not add colours and logos to you’re your page look the way you want? Also here you can add any text that you want to appear on your page. You can also bring in text from a word-processor (see text box for an explanation of how to do this.) Other fields in 1-2-3 Publish let you enter any favourite web site links that your readers may be interested in. Finally, add your email address so visitors can send you mail. Don’t forget to enter a complete email address eg. PPCKAI@AOL.COM. If you forget "AOL.COM" it may not work! Step Four
When you’ve entered all the information you want to see on your web site, you can select Preview My Page at the bottom of the page to see what your page will look like. If you want to make any changes just select Modify to go back and change it Step Five When you are happy with the content of your page it’s time to upload it to AOL’s web server. Just click Save to do this. If you wondering what your web page address or URL is, then watch out for an automatically generated email from AOL that tells everything you need. You can click on the link to visit your page. Then click Favourites to add the address to your Favourites, or to email it to friends and family. Your web page will have an address of the following format: http://hometown.aol.co.uk/<screen-name>/myhomepage/<subject-type>.html where your screen name and the type of subject are included in the address. In Part Two we look at how to modify or delete your page using 123 Publish. Web publishing has never been so easy!
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