This tutorial is intended for entrepreneurs and the owners of small and medium sized businesses, educational institutions, and students. And, just plain folks...anyone who is a casual Web surfer and e-mail participant, but is not familiar with the Internet, how it works, and what its potential is. In other words, this tutorial is for just about everyone!

If you are a student, the Internet is the most profound educational tool since the invention of the text book. If you need some help with your homework, preparing research for a thesis, or anything else in between, the Internet is rich with resources that grow every day.

If you are an entrepreneur or business owner, you should take care to read all the sections pertaining to business and the Internet. The message is becoming more clear every day: Get online, or fall behind your competitors.

If you'd like to learn how to create an effective Web page, this tutorial features an HTML tutorial! Follow the HTML tutorial, and you'll be building classy, effective Web pages in no time.

Before you begin, you must know that the author of this tutorial was not paid by any of the companies whose sites you see. The author included them because of their value to you as an individual new to the Internet. Legal notice: The Web site examples you see are the copyrighted property of the companies that created them. The author of this tutorial included them as educational examples and does not claim creation or ownership of them.

PREREQUISITES
You should be familiar with the following:

• The use of your operating system, and opening and closing programs in it.
• Using a mouse.
• The more obvious aspects of your computer's hardware, including the modem, monitor, mouse, and keyboard.

Before you begin,

• please read the acknowledgements.
• read the legal conditions. By using this program, you automatically consent to what's in there. After you read the legal conditions, click your browser's back arrow to return here.
• set your system to 800X600 pixels and 16-bit color. If you set your system to 640X480 pixels, everything will appear grossly magnified and you won't like it. If you set your system to 256 colors, the images will look terrible. You may set your system to 1024X768 pixels, and you will see more information on the screen because, at that pixel ratio, you will appear to have "pulled away from" the text and graphics. Everything will just look smaller. You may also set your system to 24-bit color, but that's overkill because the graphics won't look appreciably better at 24-bit than they do at 16-bit. So, set your system to 800X600 pixels and 16-bit color.

Now, if you're ready to begin...