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I can't view my homepage even though I know I made it!
You probably need to name your first page [your homepage]
as index.html so that when people go to your webpage
they will see your homepage file. You MUST have an index.html
file on your site because it is the default file name the server
looks for to be your homepage.
If you have already made a homepage and did not name it
index.html then you have two choices after you delete the little
startup index.htm file that geocities provided for all websites.
1. You may rename the homepage file to be index.html
2. If you already have many other pages all linking back to the
file name which you already have used for your homepage
then you may instead choose to make a new index.htm file
that simply has the words in big letters - "Enter here!" as a
link to the web page which you wish to use as your home page.
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Internal linking
or "anchor linking" :
You need two tags to set up the link. The first tag goes at the
place on the page you want to go to. Lets say I have some text
on my page that says - "Hi there!" and I want to link to it.
Well first I make an anchor tag naming my spot -right before
the text. like this
<a name="spotname">Hi there</a>
You can sub in any name in place of the word "spotname".
Then elsewhere on the page where I want to be able to jump
FROM I can use <a href="#spotname">greetings </a>
to send them to my greeting part when they click the word
greetings. Again - you have be sure that the word after the
# matches whatever anchorname you chose. You can even
link to a spot on the page from any other webpage if you just
make the link on the page you jump from as normal and add
the #spotname in the quotes at the end like
<a href="http://www.geocities.com/docwho3/crckrbox/clubstrt.htm#history">
History</a>
This would take you to a specific spot on one of my webpages
Named history.
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What other free website providers might be good places?
Other free website providers :
Try some of these places if you wish -
http://www.fortunecity.com/
http://www.spree.com/
http://msnhomepages.talkcity.com/msn/main/
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How to save powerpoint presentations as a webpage.
http://office.microsoft.com/assistance/2000/AniPptWebPage.aspx
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Page builder not working for a long time?
It may be that page builder is not compatible with your system
since all the changes made at geocities.
I think you would be better off to get a standalone pagebuilder
type html editor and maybe a good FTP program and make your
pages that way and send them to the server all ready to go.
Try the links [if you wish] at this webaddress to find the software.
Some are shareware and some are freeware. I do not profit in any
way from you using the links. I put the page there to be helpful to
people. The hostname/address the FTP program will need to
connect to geocities server is ftp.geocities.com
http://www.geocities.com/docwho3/freepge/surv.htm
or the mirror site at
http://www.fortunecity.co.uk/library/manuscript/51/freepge/surv.htm
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I use webTV and I can't view my webpages!
Important note - Yahoo has recently stopped offering
use of the Geoguide banner ads to members.
You probably have a geoguide banner on your web page.
Go into your webpage editor and look for this code and if you find it
then delete it. This should fix your webpage so that you can again view it.
[NOTE - If you cannot see the code below that is ok.
Just delete the following snippit of code that you CAN see :
<!--#geoguide-->]
<!-- <SERVICE NAME="geoguide"> -->
<table bgcolor=#666666 cellpadding=1 cellspacing=0 border=0
width=468><tr><td><table bgcolor=#eeeeee
cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 border=0 width=100%><tr>
<td bgcolor=#FFFFFF><a href="http://geocities.yahoo.
com/addons/interact/mbe.html"><IMG SRC="http://pic.geocities.
com/images/mbe/mbeFFFFFF.gif" ALT="Yahoo! GeoCities
Member Banner Exchange" WIDTH=335 HEIGHT=20 border=0>
</a></td><td align=right bgcolor=#FFFFFF><font
face="Arial" size="-1"><a href="http://geocities.yahoo.com
/addons/interact/mbe.html">Info</a>
</font> </td></tr></table></td></tr>
</table><table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width=468
border=0><tr><td valign=top height=1></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><SCRIPT LANGUAGE="javascript"
src="http://us.toto.geo.yahoo.com/toto?s=76001086&b=2">
</SCRIPT></td></tr>
</table>
<!-- </SERVICE> -->
[NOTE - Again I say - If you cannot see the code from above
that is ok. Just delete the following snippit of code that
you CAN see : <!--#geoguide-->]
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How do I save an html file in Windows Notepad?
Before saving things as html you need to :
The first step is to make the file extension visible.
For Win98 users:
Open a folder, go to View, Folder Options, click
the View tab, uncheck the "Hide File Extensions"
For Known File Types box, and click "OK".
For Win95 users :
Open a folder, go to View, Folder Options, click
the "file types" tab, then scroll to the filetype
"microsoft html document" and then click on it
once to select it abd then click the
"edit" button on the right and then when the
window opens to edit it you look for and check
the option "always show this file extension"
and click "OK". Then either click "ok" again
or "apply" if that option is available.
Now when you have an html file that you want to save
so that it will have the .htm [or .html] ending you do this :
In notepad with the file open and ready to be saved
you go to the "file" menu and choose "save as".
When the "save as" dialog box comes up you need to change the
line that says "file type" from "text" to "all files". You use the
little drop down arrow to show a menu to select the "all files" type.
Next when you type in the name of the file you must type in the
file ending as well as the first part of the file name. So instead
of typing pagename you will type in pagename.htm
[substituting your own filename for the term "pagename".]
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How do I make a thumbnail be a link to a larger version of
the same picture?
The html code to link from the thumbnail to a larger version of the picture
should look something like :
<a href="largerpicturename.jpg"><img src="thumbnailpicturename.jpg"></a>
If the larger picture is in a subfolder directly inside of the folder that
has the page with the thumbnail link you can add that into the filename like this :
<a href="subfoldername/largerpicturename.jpg">
<img src="thumbnailpicturename.jpg"></a>
If necessary, you can even use the whole webaddress of the file
in the filename. Example :
<a href="http://www.geocities.com/docwho3/freepge/largerpicturename.jpg">
<img src="thumbnailpicturename.jpg"></a>
Notice that this code has the link going directly to the picture file
and not to a web page containing the picture file BUT this
could easily have been linked to a webpage that contained the
picture so you could have the picture centered or perhaps add
some text below the larger picture.
You substitute your own filenames for those I used in these
examples.
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