| Setting up A Free Web Site Using Geocities |
| l. GeoCities FREE........Web Hosting "Sign in" 2. Don't have a Yahoo! ID? "Sign up" 3. Fill in the Questions (be sure you write down your ID and Password) Your page will be called - your "ID name". Then "I agree." 4. GeoCities FREE - pick ads you don't mind having on your site. 5. BUILD YOUR OWN WEB SITE NOW (write down your "home page address") 6. Click on - "Create & Update tab, then "Yahoo Pagebuilder" 7. Click on - Launch pagebuilder (takes time - be sure to allow Pop-ups.) 8. New (this is in the top left corner of your screen) 9. Click on the "Pictures box" Upload Browse Choose photo - Open - Then Upload In "Picture List", Choose "User Files", Click on picture you want, then OK at bottom of Box 10. Go to "add ons" Background - Pick a color on Picture Preview or one in the "Background" list. Go to Generic or others. Color that best matches your photos, It can be changed at anytime. OK 11. Go to Text Double click in text box Adjust size, font, where positioned, color 12. Save - calling your first page "index" After you save the page, it asks to if you want to see it, good idea to do that! 13. Go to new page and repeat 14. To connect pages, go to the first page Add-ons Buttons then double click the Buttons in the box Generics Choose button Link to a location My page Choose (name of page to link) Highlight OK SAVE - SAVE - SAVE then Save again! To get back on-line another time to edit your page: geocities.yahoo.com If at anytime you loose the page you are working on - look for the "Yahoo! PageBuilder 2...." at the bottom of the page, and click on that bar. The page should return. |
| Go to - geocities.com |
| Have your pictures ready, cropped, sized to 300 pixtels, and in a file you can find easily. |