Notice: Trellix has been acquired by Globalscape, and the free downloads described on this site are not currently available and some of the other Trellix links may not work. A new product to replace Trellix Web 2.7 called CuteSite Builder is under development by Globalscape now. For an update on the new product, you can fill out the form on the Trellix 2.7 Software Educational Discount page and I will update you as I learn more.

When I decided that it was time for my fledgling part-time business to enter the ether-world of the Internet, I had very little knowledge of how to build a web-site.

Several on-line courses later, it seems that every spare moment is spent developing, planning, or fine-tuning my electronic creations. My first site, www.education4electricians.com was developed primarily to provide a marketing presence on the Internet for the weekend seminars that I teach for electricians.

This site has fostered correspondence with people from all over the United States and Canada, confirming that the Internet can provide a far-reaching medium of communication.

An informational site at members.xoom.com/stevearne was created to deliver course related material to busy college night students. This has provided an avenue to reinforce assignments and add resources that simply can't be contained in a hectic class period.

My third site, located at members.tripod.com/stevearne is an effort to share with other teachers who may be interested in developing their own web presence. Most teachers have a wealth of experience and knowledge in their chosen fields, but for many of them, web-site construction does not fall within the Arts, Sciences or Languages with which they are familiar.

The Internet has opened up a new world of information for educators. Most of us have made use of the Internet for research as well as for communication. Many of us as have had the opportunity to teach or learn from on-line educational offerings. Another application that can be made of this technology is through the development of web-sites for the conventional courses that we teach.

A web-site can be used to provide a variety of resources to our students. As well as posting a copy of the course syllabus and schedule, a web-site can be used to reinforce assignments and provide additional resource material. Study topics and terms may be posted to motivate students to prepare for tests. Links to sites relevant to the course are always useful.

A link to the Instructors e-mail address will provide a convenient means of communication. It should be pointed out that the browser the student is using must be configured for e-mail before this type of link will work. If your web host supports forms, a more foolproof method of providing communication would be to provide a comment form on your site. This is a slightly more advanced procedure for future consideration.

Some other applications to be included on an instructor's web-site might include bulletin boards, guest books, or chat rooms.

If you are not familiar with Internet terminology, you will want to know that the URL address is the address that displays in the address window of your browser, following the http://

When you wish to find a site on the web, you can proceed directly to that site by typing the site URL into the address window of your browser. If you do not know the site URL, you may wish to make use of a search engine. Search engines, and directories, make use of keywords on a web page in conjunction with key words that are contained in hidden Meta Tags on the web page to provide a list of sites in response to a key word search.

There are a number of search engines available. Dogpile.com is a very useful search tool that combines the services of several seach engines to provide a set of very complete results to a search.

The distinction between a web-site domain and sub domain is important to understand as you prepare to set up a site of your own. A web-site which has its own domain will have an address in the form of www.yoursite.com If you are using a sub domain, your address will take one of a number of forms which may look like: members.xoom.com/yourname

In order to obtain a domain name of your own, you will need to register that name with one of several registration sources on-line.

Now it is time to begin to develop your own web-site. Take a moment to visualize the type of site you will want to develop, in terms of the outline form your pages might take. For example, you may choose to develop a site whose map would show several pages each having a down level branch under it with several related topics. When using the Trellix Wizard, It is easier to start with more pages and more levels to begin with, and eliminate any that you find you do not wish to use later.

Visualize your site construction first, and sketch the site map. An old programming recommendation is: "Think first, program later".

(The following commentary is in regard to using the download version of Trellix, that you install on your computer to work off-line, then publish to the web site. A new version of Trellix called the Site Builder is now available, and is loaded on the Tripod.com site. With Site Builder, you do not need to download the software, you can work with it on the Tripod site. This is a very easy and fast way to get started building your web site. Check out the sample that I made using Site Builder at http://members.tripod.com/siteteach -- then sign up at Tripod to start using the Site Builder on a site of your own! )

First of all, you will need to have the Trellix software loaded to your computer. If that has not been done, you will find instructions to help you do that on the FAQ page. If for some reason you have difficulty downloading Trellix, they have customer support contact information available on their web-site. You can go to their site by clicking on the Trellix emblem at the bottom of this page. If you prefer, they will send you a CD for a small fee.

Trelllix is available as a free download on participating web sites, such as Tripod.com. By using the free hosting service at Tripod, you can use the Tripod version of Trellix for free.

You can also purchase a full version of Trellix called the publish anywhere version of Trellix 2.7 which can be used to publish to any web site that allows ftp publishing. The publish anywhere version is available from Trellix.com for a price that at this writing runs $69 plus shipping. I can give you an opportunity to purchase the publish anywhere version at an educational discount. To inquire, please use this form on this page: Trellix 2.7 Software Educational Discount

Next, you can choose to develop a web-site using a wizard, a template, or open an existing web-site that you have previously saved. Trellix includes a good help program, and there is a tutorial that can be downloaded from the Trellix site after you have registered with Trellix.

Let's begin by viewing the on-line demo at Trellix. Go to the Trellix home page, http://www.trellix.com and enter the site by clicking on the "hand" graphic. Click on the tab for the demo. View the three part demo:

After viewing the demo, click on the tab entitled "Customer sites" to view some sites developed using Trellix in a recent contest. (Notice the winner of the VW Bug Grand Prize). Also especially notice the sites done by educators.

Now open the Trellix program on your computer. You may have an icon on your desktop, or you may need to find the Trellix program on you computer by clicking on the start button, opening programs, and clicking on the Trellix program.

Once inside Trellix, go to the Help menu. Some resources you will find here include a short description of how the internet and web publishing work: All about web publishing. You will also find a guided tour option in the Help menu. The guided tour is great. If it does not work when you click on it, you will need to go to the Trellix web site and download it. The instructions to do that are included on my FAQ page. Also on the Help menu is a Hands-on Tutorial which takes you step-by-step through creating a web-site.

If the help menu does not provide an answer to your questions about using Trellix, there is a good support section on-line at the Trellix site. If you are unable to find answers to a question in the FAQ Trellix provides live telephone support and a live support chat room during specified hours. I have found them to be very helpful.

For your first web-site, we will start by using a Wizard to guide us. Click on File, click on New. In the selection box, under Select a Template, choose Web Wizard.

4. Choose and name your pages-- pick more pages than you think you will need at this point, it is easier to delete them later. I would suggest that you rename products & services to something like "Courses I Teach" or "My Courses" and change Product 1 to the name of your first course, Product 2 the second course, and so on.

6. Enter some text allows you to enter the beginning text for each page. This can be changed, removed, or edited easily later.

Once you have developed an award-winning web site, the next step is to publish it to a web host. There are a number of ways of doing this. One of the common methods of publishing a web site is to use FTP, or file transfer protocol. When you develop a site using HTML, some method of FTP must be used. The FTP software is a program that you would need to download to your computer. Some web hosts, particularly the free hosts, provide their own on-line publishing utilities.

Trellix includes everything necessary to publish your site to a "supported" host. If you have been using the Tripod version of Trellix, this means that the only host you can publish your site to is Tripod. It is possible to purchase a version of Trellix which will work to publish to any web host, but the free version discussed in this lesson is designated to be used only on Tripod.com.

There are other web hosts that have partnered with Trellix, and I expect that you will see even more added in the near future. As this is being written, I have become aware that Trelllix now is also a partner with Webprovider.com

When you finish the Web Wizard, an option box should prompt you to preview and publish your web site. Alternatively, when not working with the Wizard, you can preview and publish at any time by going to the File menu.

The Preview and Publish option will guide you through the process of setting up your membership at Tripod.com and publishing your new web site. When you choose your member name at Tripod.com, this will be the name that your site will be published under. For example: http://members.tripod.com/stevearne where stevearne is my member name. When you publish your site, you can select if you wish the site map to be published or not.

Once you have published your web site, be careful not to leave the file on a shared or computer lab computer, particularly if you selected "remember password". You might be in for some unpleasant surprises!

Once you have mastered building your own site and find that you have been bitten by the "web bug", check out the information to be found in the following link. Ken Evoy (of make your site sell fame) has put together some marvelous information to help you develop your interests into an online presence that will even provide some extra income. http://myks.sitesell.com/etech.html

It may be hard to visualize what YOU could sell on the internet, if you have never done it before. The book Make Your Knowledge Sell will help you to take your own experiences and knowledge, and put together a product to sell on your web site.

You have a lifetime of experience and knowledge that you can draw from. Ken and Co-author Monique Harris will show you how it is possible to develop and sell your own infoproduct. http://myks.sitesell.com/etech.html