Creating Your Own Helioza Pages

Creating a Helioza page is easy if you have done your homework first. Be sure to read the rest of this article to get a feel for the elements of a page. Then do your writing and editing, collect all the photos you will need, list the links you will use and get everything together in one place. When all is ready, go ahead and login and start building your page.

Your first step is to upload all the photos you want to use. Image files are limited to 60 kilobytes (KB) each, so be sure to optimize all files first. Optimizing is the process of converting full-size digital image files to a smaller size that is compatible with web pages. This means using an image editor to reduce the photo resolution to 72 dots per inch (dpi) and then cropping or scaling your photo to a reasonable size. The longest dimension should be less than 6 inches. After you have done your initial editing, save the photo and check the file size. If it is still larger than 60 KB then scale it down to a smaller size, save it and check it again. Repeat this process for every photo you want to use on your page.

To upload your optimized photos, just login and click the ‘Upload Files’ link in the list of links labeled ‘Creators.’ On the upload form, browse to the location of your image files and select each one. Click the ‘Upload’ button and your files are on their way. Then return to ‘My Pages’ and click the ‘New Page’ button to create a new page.

After clicking ‘New Page’ you will need to pick a location in the Helioza directory. The directory is a collection of folders going two deep. The location you choose will affect the popularity of your page. Choose a location that describes the topic of your page as closely as possible. Just browse through the choices until you find one that fits really well. We use the Open Directory Project directory structure from dmoz.org.

A Helioza page is made up of core elements and content elements. Core elements include the Title, Keywords, Summary and Section Titles that you enter when you first create a page. Once the page is created you can also add up to 6 links to the core elements.

The content elements are Paragraphs, Pictures, Lists and Tables. Any of these elements may appear on your page in any order. You may also select from 1 to 4 sections to break up your page into smaller chunks. The first 3 sections are just numbered. The fourth section is the conclusion. Each section has its own unique title.

Paragraphs are the elements you have been reading so far. Entering paragraphs is easy. Pick a section using the radio buttons in ‘Your Content’ and click on the Paragraph button on the right. In the paragraph form, just enter your paragraphs with at least one Enter key between each one. If you wrote your page text in a word processing document, you can just copy that text and paste it into the form. Then submit the form and you will see your paragraphs appear in ‘Your Content.’

Pictures are equally easy. Again, select a location for your picture using the radio buttons and click the Picture button on the right. Enter a caption for your picture. Enter a short description in the ‘Alternate text’ box. Then choose a layout and select the image file from the list of files that you uploaded earlier. Click ‘Insert’ and the picture will then be listed in ‘Your Content.’

There are three photo layouts: Left, Center, Right. Choose Left and your photo will appear on the left side of the page with text on the right. Choose Right and the picture will be on the right with text on the left. Choose Center and the photo will be in the center of the page with no text on either side.

Lists are similar to tables in that they have different layouts or formats. The choices are Numbers, Bullets and Paragraph. A numbered list numbers each item sequentially in the list starting with 1. A bulleted list has no numbers, just a bullet or marker that shows the start of each item. The paragraph format has no list markers at all. Items in the list are separated by a single space. They appear to be sentences in a paragraph. This paragraph is actually a list.

This is a numbered list:

This is a bulleted list:

Tables are used to display data in a form like a spread-sheet. Choose a location and click the ‘Table’ button. Then choose the size of your table. Finally, give your table a Caption and enter all the values. The first row in your table contains the column headings. When all done, click ‘Submit’ and the table will appear in ‘Your Content.’

Links are just as easy as the other page elements. Once you have created a page, just look in the Core Page Elements table. Click the "Insert a links list" link to insert links into your page. To see how they will look, just scroll this page up and look right under the Google ads on the right. The small box labeled "Links" may contain up to 6 links.

With these five elements, you will be able to create a nice looking web page that explains almost anything. Good writing combined with pictures, tables and lists will attract visitors. And with Google ads that match the subject of your page, you will be rewarded for all your hard work.

A good page will read like a news or magazine article. It will introduce the topic, give the details and wrap it all up at the end. Break up a long article into multiple pages. This page is necessarily long in order to show all the page elements. However, it would have been better to break it into at least two separate pages. You can connect separate pages by creating each one first, then adding the web address of the pages to the links section on each page. You will find the web address for each of your pages at the bottom of the core elements table.

Placing a small picture high on your page will attract more of your reader’s attention. If the picture is visible without scrolling the page, that is best. Also use a good hook to draw your reader into your article. The title and first sentence are particularly important for this.

Make use of sections to break up your page into conceptual chunks. If you were writing about a sport, you could have a section on equipment, one on the rules, and another on tips for practice and training. Use the conclusion section to tie everything together. This is a good place to mention the next page in a series of pages, drawing attention to the link in your list of links.

Publishing web pages on Helioza is easy if you just get everything organized. You are an expert at something that others want to know about. Why not tell the world and earn a little cash at the same time?