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[[Image:Htmlhelp.png|thumb|Lissa Explains it All site logo]]
'''LissaExplains.com''' is a [[website]] created by '''Alyssa "Lissa" Daniels''' (born 1986), a girl from [[Orlando, Florida]], to teach people, especially children, how to make their own Web sites. She was 11 years old when she set up the first site in 1997, and is currently{{when|date=August 2012}} a [[Junior (education year)#College|university junior]] in Florida. Her site has taught many people how to create a Web site by writing their own [[HTML]] without the use of [[Web page]] creators. The web site includes [[tutorials]] and an [[internet forum]].

==History==
Daniels had trouble remembering all of the [[HTML]] codes that she needed to create her site, so she created a page which listed HTML codes. Eventually, more people noticed this page, and as she got more requests for the [[Uniform Resource Locator|URL]], she decided she would make the site public, first publishing it at [[GeoCities]]. When she was 12 years old in 1998, she decided to purchase a [[domain name]] for her site, and renamed the site "Lissa Explains it All".

Daniels was approached in August 1999 by Ronald L. Wagner, columnist for ''[[The Dallas Morning News]]''. He had seen her site online and wanted to feature her and her site in his weekly column, "Family PC Fun".<ref>Wagner, Ronald L., ''[[Dallas Morning News]]'', September 26, 1999.</ref> The article was published on September 26, 1999. At the time, her site was using large amounts of [[Bandwidth (computing)|bandwidth]] and the [[wikt:Monthly|monthly]] [[Web hosting service|hosting]] cost for her site was beginning to be too expensive for her to keep it online. She discussed this with Wagner, who suggested that she contact a few Internet [[advertising agencies]] to see if they would like to advertise on her site. She was accepted by one agency, and soon started earning enough money through advertising to keep Lissa Explains it All online.

By summer 2000, her site was receiving over 500,000 hits a month. In June 2000, [[CNN Headline News]] aired a story about her and the website.<ref>[http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0006/30/tod.09.html "HTML for Dummies: 13-Year-Old Girl Creates Web Site to Explain Language of the Internet"], ''[[CNN Headline News]]'', June 30, 2000, access-date=September 22, 2016.</ref> The [[CNN]] show ''Science and Technology'' also aired a story about her and her site in July 2000.<ref>[http://www-cgi.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/07/14/whiz.kid_t.t/index.html "Whiz kid Web Designer"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141225172548/http://www-cgi.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/07/14/whiz.kid_t.t/index.html |date=2014-12-25 }}, ''[[CNN]]'', July 14, 2000.</ref>

Daniels later added a forum to her site because of the large volume of email she received. The forum allowed her visitors to get answers to the many questions they had. Lissa's HTML help forum had over 75,000 members, but due to a hard drive failure with site backups that occurred in August 2007, was offline for almost two years. The forums were reinstalled on 3 July 2009, but later went down again and are currently{{When|date=December 2022}} not available. While the forums are not available, the tutorial sections of the site are still online.

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==External links==
*[http://www.lissaexplains.com/index.shtml Lissa Explains it All]

[[Category:American educational websites]]