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Hi DANIEL
Welcome to the GeoCities Personal Home Page Program! Thank you for choosing GeoCities. To foster the growth of the GeoCities community and keep it fresh and evolving, PLEASE keep in mind that you'll need to start building your home page within the next two weeks. To that end, this e-mail is designed to give you all the info you'll need to get started at GeoCities.
The URL for your Personal Home Page is:
http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/Speedway/1572/
YOUR MEMBER NAME IS: dhauri
YOUR CURRENT PASSWORD IS: ******
YOUR GEOCITIES E-MAIL ADDRESS IS: dhauri@geocities.com
(NOTE: We will NEVER ask you for your password under any circumstances. To maintain your privacy, please do not give it out to anyone).
STARTING UP:
To change your password (it's a good idea) or any other personal information, use our Profile Editor at
http://www.geocities.com/members/tools/profile_editor.html
If you're new to the Internet, you may want to use our Help Tutorials to learn how to build pages with the GeoCities HTML Editors
http://www.geocities.com/main/help/tutorials/
If you're pretty confident in your computer/Internet skills, the first thing you'll want to do is login to the GeoCities File Manager and edit your index page with one of our four Page Editors. Presently your page says something like "Hi, my name is Mary and I haven't moved in yet." You MUST either upload a new index page (index.html ) to your GeoCities directory, or make a new index page using our Basic Editor, within the next two weeks. Otherwise, your site will be deleted due to inactivity.
To make a new index.html file:
1. Log into the File Manager
http://www.geocities.com/members/tools/file_manager.html
2. At the bottom of the File Manager, choose Basic Editor from the editor choices.
3. Click on the "create new html file" button.
4. In the Basic Editor, you will be prompted to name the new file, name it: index.html
5. Choose "save" at the bottom of the page when you are done.
6. Hit the "Reload" button on your browser to see the new changes.
If you need more help, the GeoCities resource page is a list of GeoCities help guides written entirely by members. It's a perfect example of how our homesteaders help each other out, and it will surely answer many of your questions. GeoCities always appreciates the opportunity to showcase great member home pages!
http://www.geocities.com/main/help/guides/resource.html
MEMBERS PAGE:
A great resource for everything available to you as a GeoCities member is located at
http://www.geocities.com/members/
MOVE ME TOOL:
Do you already have an existing site on another server, and want to copy it over to your new GeoCities homestead? You can do it easily by using our MoveMe site-copying tool:
http://www.geocities.com/cgi-bin/shtml/members/tools/transfer.html
HELP:
For specific problems at GeoCities, try posting to our Help Forums at
http://bbs.geocities.com/eshare/server?action=120&board=379
or try Help Chat at
http://www.geocities.com/cgi-bin/chat/chat_entry
For home page tips and tricks, check out Blueprint, GeoCities' official help zine.
http://www.geocities.com/main/help/Blueprint/
For help and general info about GeoCities tools and programs, try
http://www.geocities.com/main/help/guides/guide.html
CONTENT GUIDELINES:
In a nutshell: no nudity or pornography, no outside sponsorship banners or signposts, and we only allow commercial pages in the GeoShops. For more info on GeoShops, please go to:
http://www.geocities.com/join/geoshops/
Before you start your home page, please be sure to read all of our policies and page content guidelines at:
http://www.geocities.com/members/guidelines/
HOUSEWARMING PRESENTS:
To welcome you to your new home at GeoCities, our sponsors would like to present you with a few gifts. Visit the GeoCities Housewarming area at:
http://www.geocities.com/members/housewarming/
AND FINALLY...
We really only require two things of our homesteaders:
1.) We ask that you place a customizable GeoGuide on top of your pages or support the GeoPops Program. These forms of advertising make your free pages possible. If you prefer the pop-ups, do nothing and they will appear randomly. Or, if you would rather avoid banner advertising altogether, you might want to take advantage of our premium service, the GeoPlus Program, for only $4.95 per month.
Find out all about the GeoGuide at
http://www.geocities.com/members/programs/geoguide
And get more info about GeoPlus at
http://www.geocities.com/join/geoplus
2.) We also ask that you do not interfere with the transparent Watermark on the corner of your GeoCities pages. The Watermark is designed to increase your chances of being found by visitors. For example, if you're on a great gardening page, clicking on the GeoCities Watermark will take you to other great gardening pages. We think the Watermark greatly improves our service to you, since it decreases the amount of work it takes you to meet our content guidelines, and it will bring more traffic to your site!
Again, welcome to the neighborhood! |