Halloween Special Edition   |   October 1999   |   Volume 3 | Issue 9

October
1999
Edition

 
Welcome to the Halloween Special Edition of the Eureka Today Newsletter.

We hope you will enjoy your visit, and we caution you to beware of what haunts this page. Since this is a special edition we will take a break from all of the journalism you are accustomed to, if you miss the articles we regularly post, we invite you to dig up an old copy from our mausoleum. As always, we enjoy you stopping by to visit.

  

 

 

Trick or Treat!

This Halloween as in other years there are a few things we should remember.

1. If you are not handing out candies or treats, turn off your front lighting to indicate you do not want to be disturbed.

2. If you are handing out treats, remember to keep your walkways cleared and visible, the more lighting the better.

3. When driving, be extra alert since many costumes are dark in color and children do not always watch before crossing roads.

4. Never allow children to handle fireworks without adult supervision, preferably let the adults put on the display for the children to enjoy.

5. Keep all pets indoors for the evening, and if you need to walk your dog, use a leash.

 
Have a safe Halloween... it's the last of this Millennium - Watch for children, and have the time of your life!

Halloween should be a fun time of year, but all too often it ends in tragedy for some families. A little common-sense goes a long ways. It is everyone's responsibility to ensure the safety and wellbeing of our children. Please, watch that children are conducting themselves in a safe manner and never allow young children to go Trick-or-Treating alone. Alway inspect all treats before allowing your child to consume them, and to discourage eating of treats along the way, always make sure your child has had a full meal before going out. Check that costumes do not impair visibility or could cause your child to trip. Discourage chldren from running from house to house, ask them to be careful and to watch their footing.

This safety message was brought to you by the Eureka CL Team.
If you came looking for our regular pages of information you will have to visit our mausoleum. It's a little creepy and frightening, so bring a friend!
NEW! Homepage shortcuts. Now all you need remember is your membername to find your GeoCities home page. Instead of having to use the long URL address, you can now get to your page using www.oocities.org/your_membername. How convenient, easy to remember.  

Introducing 'Joe Eureka'

'Joe Eureka' is our fictitious mascot for the Eureka area. He's a homesteader just like yourself, out searching to earn his fame and fortune on the Internet. 'Joe' is a relative newbie, and is learning new skills all the time. Follow his adventures, learn what web tools he's using to achieve his ultimate goals. 'Joe' is actually a narrative tutorial on how to make the most of Yahoo!GeoCities tools, and through his adventures we endeavor to show you which tools are available, and how to make the best use of them.

'Joe' has a mission, he's a retailer and distributor of all kinds of incredible stuff, most have not been successful for 'Joe', but he's determined to achieve his goals. He's no quitter, and has to face some incredible odds. In our first installment, 'Joe' decides that his home page does not bring the attention to his product that he desired, so he's off to market his "Thingamidoo" direct to the world. Travelling from Washington State to New York City, with several stops planned along the way.

'Joe' is brought to you courtesy of the journalistic talents of Brad Hachez, one of our newest CL's. Brad has put a personality to our 'Joe' and has brought him to life, to everyone's enjoyment. I know you will appreciate his style.

Read About 'Joe Eureka'

  

NEW! Do you use Yahoo!Messenger? If you do you will be pleased to know that Yahoo! organized a team of Graphic Volunteers to create skins for your Messenger. Now you can have a custom appearance, either by downloading one of the premade skins, or by

creating your own. The Graphics Volunteer skins cover a host of themes, including Halloween. Download as many skins as you wish, they are easy to change and make communicating visually appealling.
Bonus! Your editor was one of the CL's who volunteered for the Graphics Volunteers, and has created business theme skins specifically with the Eureka Homesteader in mind. It has been a most fun a rewarding experience, and I encourage you to check out all the skins creations, the team came up with some ghoulishly good designs.
Visit these pages to learn more about Yahoo!Messenger Skins, and to download your choice.

Announcing! Halloween Contest

Eureka has done it again! We are offerring you an opportunity to show off your original Halloween graphic. If you created a ghastly ghoul, a smashing pumpkin, frightening witch, or marvelous monster, you should enter your graphic in our contest. We would love to show off your creation and award you for your efforts. You may think we're bats, but we have a creepy suspicion many of you have artist blood. If you would like to receive recognition for your creative Halloween graphic enter the contest and we'll give your graphic grave consideration. Dig up an old skeleton from last year and post it to your page, conjure up a new spirit for the year... this is going to be a howling success!

Halloween Goodies... Trick or Treats

What A Wotch!
Pumpkin Wotch image
Wotch is an interactive and entertaining mini-browser bar. Complete with animations and sounds with rollover effects that unlock themselves for use as you use the mini-browser. Wotch has several great designs specifically for Halloween, shown here is the pumpkin, who winks, laughs, and turns his head (among other effects) as you mouseover the image. The image can be turned off leaving only the mini-browser bar on your desktop, ready to be reopened and played with at your convenience. Just click on the above image to view more wotches.

More Page coming...