Help! -- Tripod.com -- Set up question/problem

[Anna Sloan <asloan@KUENTOS.GUAM.NET>]

Has anyone tried building a web site at http://www.tripod.com ?

First, let me say clearly that they have some lovely samples of
web sites for both school and personal use.  The look of the coordinated
graphics and the colors are very professional.  They show samples and
you can adapt the organization, pictures, layout, everything -- to your
own needs.  The "pencil" layout for schools is nicely done and shows
the complete layout for a sample school.  You do not have to have any
web
building software on your computer, it is all on their server.  Just
point, choose, and click.  You can also upload any graphics files from
your computer to theirs using point/click.  No special software is needed.
The downside of this is just like Hotmail, it is all on their server and
can be slower when they are busy.  (Naturally, there are banner ads, but
I have not seen any yet that are offensive; nothing of the "make new
friends" variety.)

Second, just this one teeny tiny little thing.

THE PROBLEM:

Everything that I enter looks like a paragraph!  Even the calendar!!

The samples show different mini layouts with double spacing and
bullets/columns.  It must be possible. I have looked everywhere and
can't find anything that mentions this problem.  It must be totally
obvious, but I don't see the answer.

The page headings, division headings -- no problem!  It's the layout
on the little mini pages within a page!!  The calendar looks like a
paragraph when I view the page.  I tried changing the information in
a sample, just substituting my words and it looks fine on the input
screen.  When I switched to view the page -- it's gone "paragraph" again!

Do I have to walk this road alone?  Have anyone on LM_NET been here
before me??  It's the teachable moment here.  (Naturally, I sent a
message to the help desk, but this is a free service and my expectation
is to receive a bit of boilerplate at some future date.)

Techie info:  Using an iBook (192 RAM) with OS9 and I tried connecting
through Internet Explorer and Netscape.  Same results with both browsers.

Any responses with suggestions, would be greatly appreciated.  (It's
probably too late to suggest that I just forget it; I think that I'm
truly hooked on the idea adding just one more meaningful site to the WWW.)

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  Any help, information, comments, potential electronic potholes,
  philosophic thoughts, recommendations of a superior site builder,
  whatever -- will be compiled into a HIT (unless omission requested
  by sender).

  Thanks for taking the time to to read my message.

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       Anna M. Sloan
       Librarian
       Oceanview Middle School
       Agat, Guam

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