Day nine: work on web pages, create PDFs

We will soon finish working on our first web pages.

Among many protocols and formats intended to make it easy for machines of different types to work with each other is the format PDF. This stands for Portable Document Format. It's a translation of your work from, for example, Microsoft Word, into codes that can be interpreted by any machine with a PDF reader.

To read PDF files, you need a PDF reader, such as Adobe Acrobat Reader. To write them, you need Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Distiller (both $$$) or a program such as PDF995 or PrimoPDF.

To create your PDF file, go to the File/ Print menu on your Windows machine. (Not just Ctrl-P for Print.) From the Printer drop-down, choose a PDF writer. Check the filename of your creation, then upload using FTP.