ou want lots of people to come visit your site, right? So make it easy for your visitors to get around and find what they want. If you're making a page about staplers, don't have a bunch of pictures of your pet monkey and then squeeze all the stapler information down at the bottom of the page. As you probably know, people get impatient really quickly when looking at Web sites - there are always other places to go. So make sure your site does what it's supposed to do. If it's supposed to tell people about staplers, then it should do that quickly. If it's supposed to annoy people with loud recordings of your singing, then make sure those recordings play as soon as the visitors arrive at your site.

OK. So there's a lot of planning involved with making a Web site, but all this thinking means less work for you down the road. You'd be surprised how many people skip the planning part and jump right into making the site. It'll take them about 10 times as long to finish, so let's take a moment right now to laugh at those poor fools. Ha ha ha. OK, that's enough.

So now you know what you want your site to look like. How do you get that cute little sketch onto a computer? You need to learn some HTML, which you can do in this lesson.