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          In the instructions below, when I tell you something like "choose File->Edit"
          I mean "click on the File menu and pick the item 'Edit'", etc. Anything (in
          parenthesis) are not things meant for you to type into the program.

         Go ahead and run SeaMonkey. You can start with a "blank" page by choosing
         File->New->Composer Page, but you can also start by just browsing on-line to any
         existing web site you're going to edit. So let's try that: in the SeaMonkey web
         browser type the address of your website: http://your.name.net

         To start editing it, choose File->Edit Page. Wow, something happened,
         now you're looking at the same page, but notice that now there are some
         different menus and buttons: you're in the editor now, and can make changes
         much like you would with any word processor. Highlight some of the
         text and change the style or size with Format->Font;* change the background
         color with Format->Page Colors and Background; or change some text into a web
         link by highlighting it and hitting the Link button on the editor's toolbar and
         filling in the link information. Inserting pictures or tables (more on tables
         later), just Insert->Image, etc. Or you can select and erase everything.

        (*Note: you are best off sticking with the common default fonts
        "Helvitica, Arial", "Times", or "Courier", because if you use some other fancy
        font there's no promise that somebody else will have them on their computer and
        can view your web page the way you made it.)

      OK, so you make some changes, and want to save them. Here you need
      to keep a distinction in mind: you can SAVE your web page files right onto
        your own computer just like any other documents. I suggest making
        a file folder and saving all your files there. But for them to be on-line you
        also have to PUBLISH them, which is another way of saying "upload them
      to the web server" at   your.name.net . So if you want, do a Save or Save As...
        to save the page you are editing to someplace your own hard drive.

        PUBLISHING is not hard, but at first you have to set up some things correctly,
        and after that most of the time it's just a matter of clicking on the Publish
        button on the editor's toolbar. Let's say you did all the stuff I had up above
        and now you want to publish it. Push that Publish button. A dialog labeled
        "Publish Page" appears with stuff you need to fill out. Here's what to put in
        the blanks:

       Site Name: your.name.net
       Page Title: Your Name's Home Page   (or whatever you want)
       Filname: index.html

      (Now, you can have other pages on your site called anything you want,
      ("latestpictures.html", "FAQ.html", "aboutyourself.html", whatever) but your HOME
      PAGE'S FILENAME MUST always be "index.html" if you want it to show up when
      somebody just browses to "your.name.net".)

      Site Subdirectory for this page:         (leave it blank for now)
      make sure "include images and other files" is checked and so is "Use same
      location as page".

      (If your website gets big there may be a reasons to make special directories for
       images, etc., but for now we're just going to assume all your files are in one
       place.)

       OK, don't hit the "Publish" button on the Publish Page dialog yet! Notice that
       there's another tab at the top of the Publish Page dialog labelled "Settings".
       Click on it. Under "Server Information" you'll see more things to fill out:

       Site Name: your.name.net
       Publishing Address: ftp://your.name.net/
       HTTP Address of your homepage: http://your.name.net/
     Username: - - - - - - -
       Password: - - - - - - - -

        OK, NOW you can hit the Publish button and it'll upload things to your website.
        And, good news! If you keep making more changes in one session of editing, it's
        not going to ask you about all that stuff every time you hit "Publish", it'll
        just go ahead and upload it with one click. Now, if it doesn't seem like your
       changes worked (there's an error or you don't see the changes when you browse to
        your website,) you can do a File->Publish As   and get that Publish Page dialog
        back to check your settings. If you've inserted photos into your webpage,
        these will upload also, and that may take a bit of time depending upon the size
        of your pictures and the speed of your connection.

   I think that's enough for starters. There's some other simple tips about using
         tables to arrange stuff on your web page, and on formatting photos, but I'd like
         to see you get the fundamentals of this tested.