Building a Webpage

Each form of communication has its advantages.
The internet is global in reach, and it is more targeted on people with shared interests, and it's useful for new innovative ideas, as it was in the past when the internet was used to discuss new scientific ideas, and it can be useful for discussing new ideas for positive social change. Just remember that unless you get a reputation, you'll probably reach less than a thousand people, but if those people are in the right niche, such as scientists in a specific area, you can pack alot of punch. As for getting a reputation, that's hard, I've gotten some professors very interested in my ideas about using the internet in education, but that's uncommon. The idea fighting a social revolution non-violently is fairly new, and so there are many innovative approaches to social change that are yet to be discovered. The internet is great for getting those ideas out to those people who are motivated to work for these changes. Also it can be used to give people new ways of persuading others to adopt a more humanitiarian perspective. A good example is the article greed, which makes the point that greed costs the rich, as well as the poor. Since the rich make most of the rules, if they realize that fairness is a sound monetary policy, they will change the rules to accomodate everyone's self-interest.
The internet is best used to communicate new, INNOVATIVE ideas. George Lucas is a good example. Most people enjoyed Star Wars etc. His attempts after Return of the Jedi in innovations like interactive software were not as popular, but if he had just stuck with convention, he wouldn't have broken new ground in filmmaking. Have you ever seen those early silent moovies. Every one was the same, a beautiful woman tied to the train tracks by the villan. She gets saved at the last minute by the hero. How often would people pay $4 a movie to see that over and over? Using the net to talk about the same old stuff is a waste, people have already set opinions on most things, UNLESS you talk about it from an unusual angle.
Use very colorful language and graphics that help make your point, including backgrounds . You need data compression because the bigger the image, the longer your audience needs to wait to load your page. Windows 95 has some compression utilities on it. I also suggest you limit the total size (in bites) of your images on a page. Also, don't expect the internet to load your pictures faster in the near future, the demand for space on the net is doubling every 100 days, which is faster than they can lay down cable!
Once you have a gorgeous page, get it well positioned on the net. Everything on your page should help make your point, for example, red, black and the Jolly Roger says this is a depressing subject. When I start a page, sometimes I don't have all the graphics I want, but if I'm getting a reasonable number of hits, I'll add graphics as I find it on my CD's or the Net.
Finally as Abbie Hoffman said, "Never impose your language on people you're trying to convince." Your page should be designed to convince people, not explain in a way that has failed to convince them 1,000 times before. You should start with the points you want to make, then find a way to say it in a way your audience will understand.

If you believe you're in the right, and also believe that other human beings aren't too different from yourself, then all we need to do is communicate to make the nessessary changes.