Thinking about joining Geocities and building a website? Well, here's what ya gotta do. Geocities is part of Yahoo, so first you must have a Yahoo account. Like mine, hawaiiskyz. Then of course you can use their email and all the other neat stuff they have. If you do build a website it all FREE, unless you use Geocitie's Premium Packages. That includes: Geocities Advantage, Geocities Webmaster, Geocities Pro, and Geocities Plus. That's in an order of most advantages to the lesser advantages. But anyways, this page is about Geocities Free Web Site. To learn more about the prices and advantages of the premium packages, click here.

Geocities allows you 15 MB, which is quite a lot. After you have joined Geocities, you have 3 choices on where to start. There's PageWizards, PageBuilder, and the HTML Editor. Geocities provides you with a lot of graphics already and you can also upload all the pictures that you want off your computer.

If this is your very first shot on making a website, you should start with the easiest program, PageWizards. Heck, you can build a webpage in 3 minutes with this. There is no HTML required. All you have to do is type your title, some stuff you wanna say, add a picture, and maybe a couple of links. Geocities has some of the cutest layouts! You can choose like Hello Kitty or whatever you want. Just click on which one you want and you are ready to go. Let me emphasize this: IT IS VERY EASY.

Moving on, there's the PageBuilder. This is what I used to use before I smacked my head and said,"I understand HTML!" =). You can start off a new page, or you can fix up what PageWizards got done for you. Customize it all you want: text, pictures, links, guestbook, counter, buttons, lines, bullets, a Yahoo search box, headlines, forms, animation, almost anything you want. Just click and go. This is really easy cuz you just drag and drop your pictures, text, etc. The good thing is, you can layer the stuff anyway you want. Like if you wanted words on top of a picture. Usually if you were using HTML, you would have to edit the picture with a picture editing program. But not with PageBuilder. Just drag your text over to your pic and you're done. PageBuilder takes a while to load though.

Okay, next step. What happens after you are done with your page? You have to name your page and it will be added to your File Manager. Geocities provides a very easy File Manager to use. You can keep all your pages there, delete pages if you don't want them anymore, copy pages, have sub-directories, whatever.

Finally, there is the HTML Editer. There actually used to be two editers, Basic and Advanced. I have no clue what happened to them cuz now it's just HTML Editor. Anyways, the HTML Editor is for people who know quite a bit of HTML, or if you want to practice and experiment. HTML Editor is just free typing HTML. Though I like HTML Editor the best, sometimes it's best to use Pagebuilder. PageBuilder lets you add HTML scripts and the really good thing is, you can place them wherever you want. Say you wanted an inline frame kind of off to the left of the page. Just drag your script over where you want it. Very handy on Pagebuilder and a lot quicker, but hey, it kinda feels good when you use HTML cuz you know you're using true HTML.

Well, that's all there is to say. If you really are interested in joining Geocities, go to the Geocities homepage and you can learn more there. Click here.