It is not difficult to produce nice pages to place on your Web site. Being an amateur at producing Web pages, I selected what I consider to be the easiest way possible.

I did not have to learn the ins and outs of coding HTML, which is the acronym for :Hypertext Markup Language. Using HTML to program a Web page requires strict adherence to every element coded; that is, if you get things out of order, your page is going to be a mess. If you misuse the commands you type in, things are likely not to work at all.

So I was most pleased to come upon some easy to use software that works like a word processor that has been injected with adrenalin plus a dose of salts. It gets "hyper" as you go about creating hypertext pages.

The software is "Page Plus" and it is a product of the Serif company ( www.serif.com ). With their software you can produce paper pages, much as you can with any good word processor. Those pages can range from little postcard size things on up through entire books having hundreds of pages. The formatting, page sizes, page ordering, font choices, text colors, backgrounds, and accompanying ancillary pages (tables of content, glossaries, bibliographies, etc.) all fall into place just as you want them to. Photos and other sorts of images and artwork are placed where you want them to be and in whatever sizes you like. Additionally, and this probably will seem unusual, but you can elect to embed sound and other effects on your pages, too.

After you save your paper pages by filing a copy of them onto disk, you can define your HTML Web page by entering your own description of what your Web page is to be. Then, with a single click you tell the system that you want to publish what you have produced to the Web. You are provided the choice of publishing it directly to your Web site or to a disk for later transmittal. I know that having to make so complicated a choice may be confusing, but it works well unless you have a twitchy typing finger. You can publish one page at a time or an entire Web site full of pages, complete with text, colors, photos, and whatever else you put onto or embedded in your pages.

Here is the URL of a Web page I produced today for use on my sampsonafb Web site: It is loaded down with many, many links and a ton of photographs. The entire page (60-inches long if printed on paper) was made using my Serif software. There is no way that I could have done this using the HTML language (that I absolutely would never have time enough left in my life to learn...). www.sampsonafb.com/sampsonafbcom/webstore/webstore.html . Not a bad page for an amateur like me!!!

In addition to making HTML Web pages with this software, you can convert ordinary paper pages into PDF (Portable Document Format) pages, either alone or in multiple page (book) form. That works a lot like the creation of Web pages formatted in HTML. You simply tell the software that you want to convert your ordinary pages into PDF. That's it.

On one of my Web sites I have a number of books, some of them very large, that came to me as plain text. Using the software's "insert text" command, I loaded all of that plain text onto however many pages it took to hold all of it. Had I misjudged the number of pages that were needed, this obliging software added enough more pages to hold it all. Then I told the system that I wanted to change the font from crude and ordinary text into a more pleasing font and to revise the whole of it into the column sizes I wanted. That does take some time to accomplish with large books, but there is no real difficulty involved. Typically I converted all of those books into PDF documents that people can download from one of my Web sites (www.sampsonafb.com) and read them on their computer screens or print them out in beautiful book page form on their computer printers.

Below are some small amounts of text that had been typed in through the paper page (word processor) part of the software and then converted into HTML for Web page use. Most of the page was removed because of space considerations here on Hubpages, but you will be able to see that I was spared from learning HTML and using that markup language by itself to come up with a Web page. The examples shown below are there only to give you an idea of what can be done if you are using the same sort of computer software as I use.

Sampson AFB Photos

They never told us that what we would see is what we would get !

So here, in words, photos, and in music is a look at Sampson, the same one that basic trainees had when they stepped off of the bus that brought them here.

<html>
<head>
<!--Serif PagePlus 8.0 HTML Export-->
<!--Supports HTML 4.0-->
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html">
<meta name="Generator" content="Serif PagePlus 8.0">
<title> Sampson AFB Photos </title>

<style type="text/css">
<!--
#Footer-P
{
margin:0.0pt 0.0pt 0.0pt 0.0pt; text-align:center;
}
#Normal-P
{
margin:0.0pt 0.0pt 0.0pt 0.0pt; text-align:left;
}
#Footer-C
{
font-family:Arial, sans-serif; font-size:10.0pt;
}
#PPStyle0-C
{
font-family:Times New Roman, serif; font-weight:700;
font-size:30.0pt; color:#ff0000;
}
</table>
</div>
<div style="position:absolute; left:49px; top:1210px; width:719px; height:96px;"> (some things removed from this long line)
<table width=719px border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0>
<tr><td valign=top align=left>
<p id=Footer-P>

... and a whole lot more after these things ...