How to Make Your Own Geosite Website

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Yahoo's Geocities Main Page

Yahoo!'s Geocities is one of the most-widely available free Web hosting sites online today. The only requirement to start a website is to first create a free yahoo account. Yahoo! offers a basic site builder for users new to Web development as well as the ability to upload Web pages created off-line with more advanced Web development tools. Geocities also offers several plug-ins available for free use such as: a guest book, site visitor counter, the weather, Yahoo! search, a birthday countdown clock, and a number of other free site plug-ins.

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Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

Yahoo! Email account
Internet access

Step 1

Go to the Yahoo! website to create a Yahoo! account.
Step 2

Navigate to: http://geocities.yahoo.com/home and select the "Sign Up" menu button.
Step 3

Sign in to the geocities portal with your Yahoo! email address and password.
Step 4

Geocities Option Chooser.

Answer high level questions from Yahoo! with respect to the purpose of the site (e.g. Business, personal, non-profit use).
Step 5

Select the "Build Your Site Now" menu option.
Step 6

Choose the "Create and Build" menu selection item from the Geocities control panel.
Step 7

Select a website theme from the free options available. This will start the Yahoo! site builder wizard.
Step 8

Geocities Site Builder Wizard.

Enter a website title and description when prompted by the site builder wizard.
Step 9

Upload a site picture or choose to use the default template image.
Step 10

Enter desired website Uniform Resource Locators (URL's).
Step 11

View the newly created website.