Call this a web page?

Give me a chance; it's my first attempt!

This is an example of a Standard (html) web page. It can be plain text all the way or you can use the toolbar (just like in a Word document) to format the text and make it a bit more interesting.

You can also add images and links to other web sites, just with a click of a button on the toolbar.

The trick is to mouse-over to see what things do.

A new topic has been opened on the forum where you can ask (and answer) questions on creating Personal Pages. If you find any problems, it would be a great help if you could post to the Personal Pages topic on the forum so that we can identify any useability issues and also help each other get the best out of the Personal Pages feature.
Remember that this Standard (html) web page is not the only type of web page you can make.

Here, following, is a copy of the instructions that you saw when you first clicked on Personal Pages.

What do you think of it so far?

Some steps to get your Personal Pages up and running...

Your site has now been set up with some default text, no pages have been setup yet. Here's all you have to do to create a working web site. It's as easy as using a Word document.

The My Web Pages menu (left) will take you to the control panel for your site.
Follow the My Site settings link and you can give your site a name and enter a short description of it which will appear in the Personal Pages directory. (You can go back and change it at any time by clicking on Site Settings). Once you have done that, you are now ready to start creating your own pages.
The Control Panel (pictured below) is designed with user-friendliness in mind. When you want to create a new page, you click on the Create New Page icon. So far, so good?
However, before you start making your first page, you can choose what type of page you want. The simplest is the Photo Gallery. You can upload up to 10 images to your personal photo gallery just as easy as browsing to a folder on your computer.

Firstly, use the dropdown below the Create New Page button to select the type of page you want to create. For example, you could start out with a Standard (html) web page, or you could create an image Gallery. Another time, you might add a Music page (you can upload MP3s but watch out for copyright - basically, if you're not sure whether it's copyright material, it almost certainly is - and that means it can't be published on the web)! You can also add a Contact page, or create a document Repository.

Just to recap...

the first step is to Save the site Title and Description in Site Settings
the next is to pick the type of page you want to have by clicking on the drop-down under the Create New Page button.
once you've chosen your page type then you click just the Create New Page button.
now, let your imagination loose on your new web page and save it
That's it. You have created the first page of your web site!
If you want to change something, at any time, just click on the Manage Pages link on the My Web Pages menu (left) and select the page you want to edit.
At the moment, each member can have up to five pages on his or her web site and no more than 7500 characters of text on each page.

The page editor toolbar (pictured above) is a bit like the toolbar in a Word document. While you're creating or editing your page, you'll find that if you mouse-over each icon on the toolbar, you can see what it does. Don't be afraid to experiment. For example, to create a web page with something more than a basic structure, try using tables.

This (not the clock) is a simple table, left-aligned on the page. All you need to do is click the Insert Table icon and decide how many rows and columns it should have. The clock was inserted by clicking on the Insert Image icon then selecting an image from the list. The clock is also left-aligned so that the text flows around it.

This allows me to place text and/or images on the page in a more structured way. You can even use a table to fill the whole page by setting its dimensions at 100% and then add as many rows and columns as necessary to organize your page content. You can also click on the Insert Table icon while the cursor is inside the table and that will allow you to change the table's properties, e.g. maybe to add a background image or colour.

Trust me, it can actually look good!

While I'm typing here, I can see the table borders that are holding the text in place but, once I've saved the page, the borders will be invisible (unless I choose to make them visible).

The text on this second table row is flowing right across the table because I selected the whole row then clicked on the Merge Table Cells icon. The thing to do is experiment.

It's not always a good idea to make web pages too long. There comes a point when enough's enough. This page, for example, is effectively continued on a separate page called Tips so... all we need is a link to the Tips Page so that people can carry on reading (if they want to)!