Beyond the Sig:

OK, you've jazzed up your email sig with dancing babies, colorful clowns, cute kittens. You've made intricate audioscope art, gradient tables, even thrown in a tuneful midi or funny wav file. Making email sigs is your passion.
But wait! Who, outside the WebTV community, actually sees and enjoys your HTML talents? Not too many. The problem with WebTV HTML email sigs is who normally sees them in their full glory. WebTV users can see everything, every grad table, audioscope, and scrolling marquee, along with the dancing hamsters and twinkling teddy bears. PC users can see your sig to a certain extent. Many computer users turn off HTML for incoming mail and/or block images period. That means all your hard work is for naught whenever you send you computer friends an email.

Not saying that HTML'ed email sigs are a bad thing — I use them on occasion — but what you really want is to show off those hard learned page building skills for all the world to see. That's right – the world.

On the next few pages, I will give some basic tips on web page building for first time webmasters. This in no way replaces the tons of help pages – Draac, Momp, Expanding Head, Paul Erickson, TyTutes, et.al. – All the LBB greats who've already helped thousands of WebTV users take that first plunge into web mastery.
What I'll give you are practical tips on choosing an ideal web host, how to use a transloader (Yes, there are a few of us who still have yet to discover the wonders of the transloader), and easy ways to promote your web site.

So let's get started. The next page will describe the in's and out's of choosing a decent web host.

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