How to Make Your Own Geosite Website

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.

Things You'll Need

• Yahoo! Email account
• Internet access

Instructions

1. Go to the Yahoo! website to create a Yahoo! account.

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

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

4. 

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

5. Select the "Build Your Site Now" menu option.

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

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

8. 

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

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

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

11. View the newly created website.

Tips & Warnings

• Build Web pages off-line for upload if more complex Web designs are desired.

Resources

• The Author's WebSite created for this article.
• Yahoo Geocities site home.