Tutorial for FREE website at Yahoo! GeoCities
for HTML 1 Students

NOTE: Some of you may already use a free email account at Yahoo. It's best to still sign up for a new account for your new website. Make sure you are not logged in to that original email account, when you start this process. Log out, then go to the link to sign up for free. You will get another free email account with your new free website. You can let it expire, by non-use, or keep it active: it's nice to have a separate email for your website, to be separate from your personal email.

1. Go to  GeoCities URL-    http://geocities.yahoo.com/
• If you want free web-hosting, you get ads (like TV)
• If you want no ads, get Plus, for $4.96/month (or ask your teachers for hosts they like)



2. Click on Free /sign up (column on left)
• Says GeoCities.....FREE web hosting
• Says Free $0 sign up



3. Sign in to Yahoo!
• Pick a free domain name with matching email account--this is included
• I like that I can use my on-line nickname, or make one up
• Choose a descriptive or unusual name for better chance of it being available



4. On GeoCities Profile page, you create Yahoo! ID
   
   

   Fill in the Blanks (blue question marks give help hints)
   Questions	Type in Answers
   First name	Kot
   Last name	Student
   Preferred content	Yahoo! US or pick your country and language
   Gender	female
   Yahoo ID	pick domain name--only a-z and 0-9 no spaces or ~ or * are allowed
   Click gray box-says "check availability of this ID"	virtualnotebook=unavailable so I tried    kotnotebook
   Congratulations, its available	had success with   kotnotebook
   Click gray box-says "continue Registration with this ID"	something a little unusual has better chance of being available
   Password	"secretpassword" no spaces, make memorable
   Re-type password	Passwords show as dots
   Yahoo mail	Leave box checked for free mail

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   Forget Password?
   Security question	Pick question --I chose   "What's your pet's name?"
   Security answer	Pick answer --how about   "Miss Kitty"
   Birthday	January 1, 1986 entered birthday of VU --pick month, date, year
   Zip Code	71111 --enter zip code
   Alternate email	Other regular email --can leave this blank

   
   
   

   Customizing Yahoo - and finish Registration
   Industry	Education pick from drop-down menu
   Title	Student-college (these first 2 are not required)
   Verify registration	Copy weird-looking code Proves you are real, not a robot
   Terms of Service	Read, then click   "I agree"
   	main things are: non-profit, no porn, no profanity, must stay active--no action for 90 days, and you are de-activated
   Registration is complete	Print page with ID and URL address to save (marketing preferences are not required --left this blank)
   Continue to Yahoo GeoCities	click on box --go to GeoCities




5. Fill out form and Verify
• I checked "education" and "internet search"
• Verify again that I am not a robot
• Now go to GeoCities Welcome page
• Click on "Build your website now"


Note: After successfully registering, you will be sent to the Home GeoCities webhost page
This is the page you will always go to for uploading and adding to your website



6. GeoCities new main Home page
• Geo has new home page, here is picture of it
• Take a tour, learn about Yahoo GeoCities
• See the tabs along the top?
  



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7. Click on "Manage" tab; it is third tab from left
• This will take you to a new page,  Your GeoCities web-manage page with new ID and name
• Here is picture of it--I know text is small  (you can go to view, make text size larger)
• See your name and URL?
  
  



• In 1st box are "Easy Upload" on left, and "File Manager" on right
• In 2nd box are your site statistics--space you have used, times you visited, space available



8. Click on "Easy Upload" link
• See the white boxes and gray "Browse" button? click on top "Browse" button
• Browse your files--you'll see a tree diagram of your own files
• Scroll down to your HTML1 folder and highlight it
• Click on gray "Open" button; your HTML folder will open
• Highlight your notebook1.html file; click "Open" again
• Your file will be in that Browse box--then click "Upload" button
• Wait for file to go up to Yahoo GeoCities
• Cheer when you see "upload of notebook1.html file was successful"



9. Another method is to click on "Create and Update" tab
• It takes you to work-page with 3 boxes
• In 1st box are Pagebuilder links--Not for us; we code our own pages
• In 2nd box are Yahoo text editors links--Not for us; you may try this at a later time
• In 3rd box are links to "File Manager" and "Easy Upload"
• In 4th box are "Learning Resources"--you can search for books at Yahoo



10. File Management Tools--using "File Manager"
• You can click on "File Manager" link to go to your Geo file
• Geo takes you to an entry page with yellow box, says "open File Manager"
• Click on "open File Manager", you'll go to your list of files; you have 1 file so far
• click on "View" (small link in center of page) to see it
• Later, when you add subdirectories, you'll always go to File Manager

• In week 2, you will learn how to make an "index.html" as front door
• Yahoo GeoCities has an index.htm file there already as a place-holder
• It will have the "Website Under Constuction" message on it for now
• Later you will upload graphic files for backgrounds and images--in later lessons
• Each week's lesson has new things to add to your website
• Add GeoCities main page to your favorites for quick access

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