Yahoo! GeoCities

I am really glad that you joined us and made your homestead at Yahoo! GeoCities - or are considering it! I hope that you will also find Yahoo! GeoCities a very friendly, user-oriented, and family-safe web domain that you can easily call your second home.

Before GeoCities merged with Yahoo!, and for a short time afterwards, it was set up like large online metropolis and it had various "neighborhoods." What was so great and fun about each different neighborhood was it's own special "theme" - we started our homestead at Heartland because it was the place based on the theme of "family values" and family life.

For the time being, you can still affiliate your webpage with one of the different neighborhoods through updating your personal Yahoo! GeoCities account. But finding these old neighborhoods is a bit tricky. That's because Yahoo! GeoCities is redesigning the way they categorize sites. But just in case you are ever interested (*wink*), click here to discover all the different neighborhoods that once shaped GeoCities as the virtual metropolis it was. Remember to log into your member account before accessing this link!

About Yahoo! Geocities Policies
Here are some things you need to be aware of before signing up and afterwards

• Yahoo! Geocities Terms of Service - Discusses the rules and guidelines which govern all sites at GeoCities. Read over them carefully to verify that and make sure your site will be in compliance.
• Yahoo! GeoCities Privacy Policy - Discusses what exactly your personal account data will and will not be used for.
• Yahoo! GeoCities Copyright Information - Copyrights are important! You need to know how to protect your work and also how not to infringe on someone else's copyrighted material - and what GeoCities will do if a homesteader is reported for copyright violations.

Taking the First Steps

• Join Yahoo! GeoCities - How to sign up for your very own webpages!
• Current Members Log In - After signing up, this is your entry point into working on your site, getting your mail through Yahoo!, and using all the other Yahoo! features.
• Members Prior to June 25, 1999 - Many GeoCities members signed-up and started their sites prior to GeoCities' merger with Yahoo! If you are one of these members, and haven't yet re-signed with Yahoo! you will need to go here first before you can use your account again.
• Yahoo! PageBuilder - Yahoo! GeoCities newest and easiest web page building tool ever and a great starting place for those new to webpage construction to get their first page up quick and fast. You need only know how to point, click, and drag!

Bigger Steps
You may need to log-on first before using these links.

• File Manager - Here is where you can build your new webpage or edit an existing one!
• FTP (File Transfer Protocol) - Don't like or can't use EZ Upload feature of the File Manager? FTP is your solution for uploading images and html pages to your GeoCities directory.
• Counters - Want a counter for your site? Find them here.
• Guestbooks - Let visitors to your site record their visits with this easily-to-customize form. You can even choose the questions you want to ask!
• Message Boards - Keep track of visitors to your site with one of these great message boards- five fun templates to choose from!
• Search Box - Let visitors search all of Yahoo! Geocities right from your pages.
• Yahoo! GeoCities Headline Banner - Lets visitors to your site stay current on the leading news stories!
• Change Your Yahoo! Profile - When you need to update your personal profile information, this is the place to go.
• Promote your site here and here - You've created your site, now find out how to get even more visitors to drop by!
• Move Utility - If you are already a member of a neighborhood, and should ever decide that you want to move to another neighborhood or community, Yahoo! GeoCities makes it easy with this fast and simple-to-use utility.

Bolder Steps

• WebTech University - This is where I first learned basic HTML, then tables, forms and frames. They even have beginner classes for creating your own webpage graphics with Paint Shop Pro! Classes are free, you only need to sign up!
• Java Applets - Spice up your site with interesting text and graphics effects. Locate easy "cut-and-paste" code to add that extra punch to your page here!
• Streaming Media - Looking for even more ideas to improve your site? Check this link out - WOW!

Broader Steps

• GeoPlus Program- Would you prefer not to deal with banners or GeoCities' pop-up ads? Then you might want to consider upgrading your site to GeoPlus. For a small monthly charge, you not only eliminate all unwanted advertising on your site, but you also get an upgrade to 25 MB of server space! Also lots of extra features not available with free pages.
• Need Just a Little More Room? Yahoo! Geocities also provides the option of obtaining additional server space in increments of 5MB for a small monthly charge.
• GeoShops Program - Want to take your site commercial? Then GeoShops is your answer. As a member of the GeoShops program you will automatically have market exposure throughout the Internet!
• Pages That Pay Program - How would you like to earn real money with your site? Pages That Pay Program allows you to place affiliate banners on your site and earn money from visitors who shop with your banner sponser!

Extra Steps
HTML Guides, Tutorials and Classes

• HtmlGoodies - My favorite online HTML guru, Joe Burns, has created an incredibly great site featuring easy-to-use HTML tutorials that anybody can follow and understand!
• A1 Java Scripts - Functional javascripts, and cool effects, with over 225 free cut and paste scripts to date.
• HTMLite - This is another cannot miss site for those wanting easy to follow tutorials on working with basic as well as more advance HTML codes.
• Page Tutor - Formerly Joe Barta's tutorials, this is a wonderful site for folks just starting out on the web as well as "old-timers" who would like to brush up on basics they seldom use. It offers both free tutorials and paid membership access to even more.
• Seniorchamp's "Original" Help Pages - This Augusta CL, aka "The Wise Old Man," has created probably the "Ultimate GeoCities Help Resouce Page" with help for HTML, graphics and even PageBuilder. Find out for yourself!
• Hexadecimal Color Chart - Here's an easy-to-compare color chart which will help you decide on your choices of text, links, and background colors.
• The HTML Writers Guild - Decide to really go the distance and want to learn HTML, JavaScript, DHTML, CSS, XML and so on, and so on? There is no better place to do it then through The HTML Writers Guild. Become a Full Member and get a discount on online classes.

Consider Cross-Browser Compatibility and Access

• Bobby Compliance - Could you imagine just for a moment that whenever you turned on your browser to visit all sorts of different websites, that some would appear all mixed-up or with pictures that you could not make heads-or-tails of? Or your friends easily understood a page but it made absolutely no sense to you? That is somewhat like the experience of many disabled persons when they browse the web - their access to information available to most is limited because of the HTML formatting of a page. Learn how to make your site accessible to all by visiting Bobby - then apply what you learned to earn that "Bobby Approved" certificate that proclaims your site disability compliant!
• "Viewable With Any Browser" - Visit this campaign for a non-browser specific WWW site. Created by professional corporate webmaster, Cari D. Burstein, who not only rebels against those "Best Viewed in..." recommendations on webpages, but also provides a common-sense argument on why making your webpages accessible by all browsers will help you make the best possible webpages that you can. Lots of great information is here - a "Do Not Miss" site!

The Yahoo! Steps to Help in GeoCities
Log-in first then access these links

• Yahoo! GeoCities Help - Here you will find the main and most current Yahoo! source for GeoCities Help information.
• Yahoo! GeoCities Message Boards - These are "bulletin-boards" where homesteaders post their questions and answers about webpage making, as well as comments about Yahoo! and GeoCities.
• GeoCities Neighborhood Message Boards - These are the older boards, where neighborhood questions and comments are posted, as well as even more comments about Yahoo! and GeoCities. Here you will also find a special "Help and Support" board where homesteaders can easily interact.
• Yahoo! Geocities Help Chat - Want an answer to your webpage question in real-time? Then try the GeoCities Help Chat where helpful homesteaders and CLs can often be found waiting to assist you. This link will take you to the GeoCities Chat main page, select "GeoCities Help Chat" link at the top.
• Yahoo! GeoCities System Status - Sometimes there are isolated problems with the various GeoCities servers. For instance, a server for a large number of sites might go down, and suddenly you and 1000 more folks cannot access your sites. Please check here for first for all the latest technical difficulties that GeoCities is working on.
• Yahoo! GeoCities Help Form - Got a technical question about your page and cannot find the answer anywhere? Here you will find the form to fill out for a reply from the Yahoo! techs themselves.
• Yahoo! GeoCities Counters Help - Want a counter on your page? Have one and it's acting up? Go here to get advice on setting up your counter and keeping it running.
• Yahoo! GeoCities Community Leaders - Community Leaders are volunteers who like to help other homesteaders with their homepages and other Yahoo! GeoCities questions. Sounds like something you would like to do? Then visit the CL General Information Page and find out more and where to apply in your neighborhood!
• Yahoo! GeoCities Editors Help Topics - Basic help for users of the Advanced Editor for webpage creation.
• Yahoo! GeoCities Email Help - Problems with your Yahoo! Mail account? You can find answers here.
• Yahoo! GeoCities GeoGuide Help - If you do not wish to have the Ad Square on your page, then you must have a GeoGuide instead. Should your GeoGuide not cooperate, you will most likely find the answers to your problem here.
• Yahoo! GeoCities Guestbook & Personal Message Board Help - Easy-to-follow fixes to the most common GeoCities Guestbook problems.
• Yahoo! GeoCities HTML Help - Here you will find answers to the most frequently asked HTML questions.
• Yahoo! PageBuilder Help - Some specific help for users of the PageBuilder webpage editor.
• Yahoo! GeoCities Sign-In and Registration Help - Go here if you ever lose your password or if you have difficulties logging in for one reason or other.

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Last updated Nov. 27, 2000
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