Running a Website Basics

Plan a transition for your free Geocities web site before Yahoo Geocities closes the free space to prevent the loss of your site.

It is possible to build a quality website from scratch, with no special software needed and no setup or maintenance fees. The key to doing this is opening a a free account with one of the many...

Yahoo.com offers users a number of paid packages for website hosting. There is, however, a platform on Yahoo for building your own website that is free of cost. Yahoo Geocities provides free web...

Free personal website hosts range from the very basic and simple to complicated sites that require knowledge of HTML and CSS. You can avoid spending a lot of time switching from one to another if...

By knowing the number of unique visitors to a Web page, you can determine how many new people are viewing the Web page while tracking the number of return visits. Follow these steps to determine...

Knowing which browsers people use to visit your site will help you determine how to set it up for optimal viewing. Follow these steps to find out.

Different operating systems view the same Web site in completely different ways. What looks clear and professional on one operating system may not load correctly on another. In addition, different...

When people come to your Web site via a link on another Web site, that site is called a referrer site. Knowing which referrer site your visitors used will indicate what content your visitors...

If you no longer want your Web page listed on the Yahoo! Member Pages Directory, you can remove it from the directory yet still keep it online. Removing your Web page from the directory is an easy...

To measure the popularity of your GeoCities Web page, you can check how many people have viewed your page. Just follow these steps.

Having an email form on your Web site will give your visitors an opportunity to connect with you by expressing how they feel about your site. This will give them greater satisfaction with your Web...

Yahoo! Presences allows visitors to your Web site to see whether or not you are online. This will allow them to better communicate with you. Basically, it adds a instant feedback option to running...

A great way to make your Web page stand out is to connect your page to the entire World Wide Web. All you have to is add a Yahoo! search box to your page. This will allow your visitors to search...

GeoCities allows you to create your own Web site for free. Many people like to tailor their GeoCities Web page to reflect where they are from. A good way to make your GeoCities Web page unique is...

It doesn’t take much of a technical background to create a free GeoCities Web site. Just follow these steps to learn how.

To sign up for a free GeoCities Web site, visit the Yahoo! GeoCities homepage and click the “Sign Up Now” button that matches the plan you want. Follow these steps to sign up for a free GeoCities...

The Geocities component of Yahoo! is like an early version of the MySpace online community. It gives you a chance to create a page all your own. You can use any of the many options available to...

Yahoo’s Geocities capabilities were the precursor to the popular MySpace online community. With Geocities, a person can create their own unique Web page and publish it for anybody to see. Within...

Using your Geocities account’s File Manager is a fairly simple way to keep all your Web site's files organized. You can use subdirectories to further organize your files, making it easy to keep...

To keep all of your files in one place for your Geocities Web site, there is a File Manager. Just about anything you need to do to your files, you can do it here. Here are just a few steps to...

Your Geocities File Manager can have several subdirectories. At times, you may need to delete a subdirectory, either to make room for a new one or for reorganization. Here is how to delete a...

You have files saved to your Geocities File Manager. If you want to make changes, you can edit them pretty simply. Here are the steps to editing your HTML page with Geocities File Manager.

Sometimes navigating your Geocities File Manager can be a little tricky and you might need a little bit of assistance. Here is how to rename a file on your Geocities file manager in just a few steps.

An MPC file is a music file, and it is much like an MP3. It is normally a bit better quality than a regular MP3 file. You can add your MPC files to your Geocities Web site. It is rather easy and...

Making your little corner of the Web uniquely yours is as easy as adding a few pictures. To add a GIF picture file to your Geocities Web site, you first have to upload that file to your File...

When you have a Geocities Web site, you can make it a perfect representation of yourself. A really good way to do that is to add pictures to your site. One type of picture file is a JPEG file....

You probably have a bunch of home videos that you want all your friends and family to see. Using the Internet to share your home movies is easier than ever. Now you can use your Geocities Web site...

If you are looking for a good place to put your portfolio online, you might want to use your Geocities Web site. You can put just about any portfolio on the Web site. You can make it look...

Building a Web site at Geocities to share your music is a very easy process. You can put a good part of your music library onto your page to share. Here is how to share your music using your...

Need a place to show off your talents? Your Geocities Web site is a good place to share your talent with the world, whatever it may be. Here are the steps to showcasing your talent using your...

If you would like your own free Web site, Geocities is one of the most popular places to get one. They offer free sites, as well as upgrades to sites with higher capacities for a small fee....

Once you have gotten a Geocities Web address, the next step is to actually “build” your Web site with content. In order to do this, Geocities offers a program called Yahoo PageBuilder, which helps...

Before you post a link on your Web site to pictures, you must create a separate page dedicated to your pictures. After you have made a picture Web page, follow the steps below to link your Yahoo...

Adding a JustGive.org button to your Geocities page is just like adding other elements to your page. It is simple to add a button using the software provided by Geocities. Below is a list of steps...