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Helping today's artists easily create a website to showcase their work on the Internet, this highly visual guidebook contains overviews and detailed tutorials from popular software programs, with numerous illustrations and step-by-step examples. Starts with a brief history of the Internet and World Wide Web, and includes full chapters Internet research, communication and navigation, an overview of programs used for creating websites, practical guides to making web pages, uploading your finished pages onto your server and testing your site, and projects for the web. Offers numerous illustrations and visuals to prompt creativity and help users visualize their own website. Examines typical art problems encountered in website design, and concentrates on web development programs that are more intuitive than technical, such as LiveMotions from Adobe, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe PageMill, and FileMaker. Links users to many other websites for additional support. For artists interested in basic web development and designing their own website.