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Put your classroom on the Web
If you don't have your own Web pages yet and you might
like to, keep reading.
If you don't know how you got to this page, write this
down:
http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Canopy/6561/getonweb.html
That's the address you'll need to enter if you go somewhere else and need to come back here.
If you have any questions or comments, please email me at [email protected]. If you can't send email or don't know how, ask a friend to send a message for you. If all else fails, go to Sign My Guest Book and tell me your problem there, and I will post an answer here.
This will tell you how to get your own free 3/4 Web pages
in GeoCities. If you would like to know more about free Web pages before
you decide to get your own, see About Web Pages.
1. Get an email address.
First you'll need an email address. If you have one already,
go to
Join GeoCities.
If you want to know more about free email before getting an email address, make sure you have this page bookmarked, or write down the URL (address), then see E-mail Freebies at The Free Site.
To get an email address at Yahoo, then go to Yahoo!,
then click on "Yahoo! Mail". You will have to choose a password.
Make sure you have a good way to remember it! Afterwards come back here.
If you would like to know more about GeoCities before you decide to join it, make sure you have this page bookmarked, or write down the URL (address), then go to About GeoCities.
To join GeoCities, go to Choose Your Membership.
Afterwards, if you need any help that you can't get from GeoCities or your friends, email me at [email protected].
If you're wondering how Web pages can be free, and what's the catch, the companies that host them usually say that it's paid for by advertising, but I think it's a little more complicated than that. It may be that eventually you will have to pay in order to keep your pages. Other than that I don't know of any catch. You just have to be aware that the terms of service make no guarantees of quality or reliability, and don't count on anything.
You can find more information at FREE
Web page services at The Free Site.
To find out what GeoCities has to offer, make sure you know how to get back here, then try the Geocities Tour. I especially like the neighborhoods, the neighborhood centers, the community leaders, the children's neighborhood, and the activities and projects of the people in GeoCities.
There have been some recent changes that are distressing some of us. The management has taken over the right side of our pages for promoting the GeoCities brand name. The advertising has become more intrusive and pervasive, and some of it is more offensive. Some of our favorite things have disappeared, such as the featured pages program which gave recognition to especially beneficial or enjoyable pages. Many recent improvements are full of bugs which plague members and visitors alike.
All of this has been done without the slightest acknowledgment or apology for the inconveniences, other than some articles that appeared briefly in one forum in response to the most vocal and persistent protesters. It looks to me as if some of the most antagonistic and defiant protesters are watched carefully, and if they break any rules, even ones that are not generally enforced, they are denied access to their pages or their pages are removed.
The rest of the people who are unhappy with the changes are simply ignored and their very existence denied.
I have written to dozens of community leaders about all this, and the only ones who replied in any substantial way are no longer in GeoCities.
In spite of all this, most of what I've always liked is still here, and the neighborhoods I've visited have found various ways to make up for the things we've lost.
You can sometimes find background information and discussion of these problems at AlterIcon, or at the GeoCities Help Forum under "complaints."
"No man can attain his true station except through his justice. No power can exist except through unity. No welfare and no well-being can be attained except through consultation."
Get your own Free 3/4 Home PageLast modified 28 March 1999
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