How to Make a Teen Web Page for Free
Create an interesting web page that teenagers will want to visit using free web services and tools to offer an online destination for teenage friends, family and new acquaintances. Give helpful information and advice on topics you have experience with, share hard-won insight or just give young people a reason to network. Design your teenage web page and take advantage of the opportunity to learn web development skills and techniques for a future career.
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Things You'll Need
- Domain name URL (if desired)
- Web hosting service
- Web development software (if needed)
- Digital camera or webcam (if needed)
Instructions
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Gather Teenage Web Page Ideas and Content
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Decide on the topic or area of interest for your teen web page that's personal if you want to introduce yourself and share your interests with others. Tell your life story, what you like and dislike and describe your dreams and goals.
Give more general information that's interesting and useful for an American teenager or others worldwide. It can be a hobby, skill or ability you have or are enthusiastic about and want to explore with others your age.
Choose from popular subjects like school, entertainment, health, fitness or social issues, such as relationships or personal safety.
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Look for pictures or add your own images that relate to the subject of your teen web page. Use them to add interest, color and variety to the text information, making it more inviting to younger viewers.
Think of a comic book or graphic novel having less text and more pictures for ease of reading and enjoyment by younger readers, who don't like to read a lot of words onscreen. Create a visual original story or illustrate a vacation you've taken to bring the journey to life.
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Add your favorite music files to your teen web page or showcase your own original song files using a free audio player, such as Premiumbeat. Include links to music sharing sites to quickly add music to your page.
Share videos on your web page with a player from sites such as YouTube or Vimeo to add motion to your teen website. You can use video of your own activities or others, such as music, sports or even make a video how-to page.
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Offer interactive features, such as online quizzes, games and puzzles that will involve teenagers of both sexes in your web page topic.
Provide opportunities for communication, such as a forum or online chat room. Meebo is a popular free chat room service.
Develop and Launch Your Webpage for Teenagers
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Use the free web hosting service your Internet service provider may offer or sign up with a free online service, such as Angelfire or Google Sites, to host your web page.
Register a domain name URL or use one furnished by your free web hosting service. Point your registered domain name to your web page per your hosting providers instructions if you use your own URL.
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Design your page using the drag and drop site builder your free hosting service may provide to create a simple and attractive web page. Or build your page from the ground up if you have skill with web development software.
Obtain a more sophisticated layout from a free templates website if you want a more complex theme-based design. These simplify developing the web page, enabling copying and pasting of a variety of content onto the page.
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Review your final web page for its usability, relevance to teenagers and visual interest. Ask some teen friends or to look at it and give you their feedback so you can make minor revisions before launching it.
Launch your finished teenage web page by letting friends, family and others on your email contact list know about it with an email announcement. Use print media, such as the school newspaper, to let fellow students know your web page is online.
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Tips & Warnings
Promote your teenage web page with a link to it in blog comments or on your friend's Facebook or MySpace pages.
Don't overuse links on your web page. Keep them to a minimum to avoid distracting the viewer.
Don't put anything online you wouldn't want everyone to know, whether about you or someone else. Remember, content on the Web is eternal.
Keep your content age-appropriate. Avoid salacious, grossly provocative or sexually oriented subjects matter.
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