In last month's PhotoStockNotes I showed you where you could find tutorials on how to learn HTML, the basic language you'll need to know for your Web site construction.

Don't let me scare you with that word construction. Most people associate it with building a house or a skyscraper. In our case, a tree house will do. Web sites don't have to be mysterious or complex.

When you build a Web site, you don't have to place it immediately on the Internet. You can test and build it off-line, on your own hard drive. When you feel it's ready, then you can announce the launch date to your friends and clients.

Install the tutorial that I recommended or get a friend to recommend one for you. Follow the guideline examples. Pay particular attention to the section where the author tells you how to set up your HTML files on your own hard disk, and how to point your Web browser to those files. Did your Panic Index just shoot through the roof? Why is it that when you tell someone to pay particular attention to something, they immediately assume that it will be really difficult to understand?

Relax. Here's a preview of the subject. Every resource available on the Internet has a "unique address" (URL) including each Web site. You instruct a Web browser to connect to a Web site by identifying the address of that Web site. If the address starts with http, the browser knows that it must connect to the Internet in order to find that Web site. If the address starts with a file name, the browser knows that the Web site is on your own computer, and it will not even try to log on to the Internet. Now, was that so difficult?