How to back up to DVDs

Hello all,
I have DVDs and want to back up my computer, such as my photos, and music, and anything else that is recommended to backup, which I am not sure what that would be.
I don't have all that much to backup, I don't think.
I do not have very much experience with computers, and as I try to do a search about this on this board, I just get quickly confused with the terminology.
I even downloaded something called 'backup' that looked promising, but when I double click on it, it wants me to tell it which application to open it with, which I don't know. The 'read me' file is too confusing, and doesn't help.
I don't want to pay for a .mac account right now. I think I've read that would help me, but is there a free way to do it as well, with the DVDs I bought?
Any simple way for a very non computer literate person such as me to take care of this?
Thanks so much, for any help.
(I am posting in the right place?).
Jenny

hi Jenny
When I back up anything from my machine onto DVD I just physically drag the files I want to save onto the file I create in Roxio Toast Titanium and then burn a disk.
Once that is done I reinsert the disk and open the files on the DVD to confirm they're ok and not corrupted. Then delete the appropriate files from my machine.
It's probably a slow way to do it but it's always worked for me.
Another thing I always do once I've backed up is take a screen shot of the files contained on the disk, print it out and stick in the DVD/CD case as a cover. Nothing more annoying searching hundreds of disks looking for work when it's vaguely labelled "hard disk backup1..."
Hope this helps

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