How to move into Geo




Geocities, gives everyone 4 weeks to move into your Geocities' home, away from home.

Don't worry, I'm here to help. Just don't panic. It's going to be OK.

All you have to do is upload to your geocities' directory 1 graphic image and 1 HTML file.

1. Do you have a graphic image on your computer, so you can upload it to your geo directory?
if you haven't, go and get one from my Free Purple graphics, this is the url:
http://www.oocities.org/Heartland/Bluffs/9380/graphmain.html

2. Now go to the file manager. this is the url
http://www.oocities.org/members/tools/file_manager.html

3. enter your user name and password,

When you get inside, you will see your username at the top of the page.
On the left hand side you will see lots of handy links.
Half way down the page you will see your file names, and the only one there for now, is your index.html page. RIGHT!!

4. a bit further down, you will see a utility
called EZ File Upload.

and 5 boxes like this:

Above this box, you will see this:

Then you will see 2 buttons like this:

Upload File: is to bringh files from your computor to your directory at Geo

Clear: prss clear if you make a mistake.

Go and press the BROWSE button.
You will get a list of files from your computer.
Look for the graphic image you want to upload to your page.
DID YOU FIND IT JET?? .....Welll done!!

NOTE: YOU CAN USE THIS UTILITY TO UPLOAD IMAGES AS WELL AS HTML FILES.


ie: images with extension: .gif or .jpg
or files with extension .html or .htm



5. Now the Ez File Upload is going to upload your files to your directory. And you will be able to see the names in the File Manager
.http://www.oocities.org/members/tools/file_manager.html

If you already have an FTP software, like CuteFTP, or WF_FTP & AceFTP, you might use that instead of using the Ez File Upload tool from Geo. It does the same job.

To set up your FTP software, read this little instructions:
http://www.oocities.org/main/help/guides/guide_ftp.html

I will take you step by step on how to make a page on the Ez Editor.  

1.  Go to the file manager
http://www.oocities.org/members/tools/file_manager.html

this is always the starting point. 

Enter your password and user id and go inside.  


2.   Once inside the File Manger, you will see your username at the top of the page....SEE IT!!  

on the left hand side you will see lots of little links to some very usesfull thinks in Geo...such as Add-Ons, this is were you can get a guestbook, a counter etc.  


3.  now go down the page and you will see some grey buttons AND above the buttons you will see one file by the name of  index.html  
this is the page you got when you joined Geo...take a look
http://www.oocities.org/put your site url here/number 


4.   below the grey buttons you will see               

Choose Your Editor
and inside the white space you will see
Advance HTML EDITOR,
and next to it on the right a grey button which says
ABOUT THIS EDITOR. 
If you press this button it will give you some idea of what that editor does.  


5.   now, click on the little arrow next to Advance html editor, and more names will come up.  Intel.com, WebPage Wizard, Basic HTML Editor, Advance HTML Editor, & Ez Editor  
 

NOTE: TO USE THE EZ EDITOR YOU HAVE TO HAVE JAVA TURN ON, IN YOUR INTERNET OPTIONS.   WHEN YOU GO INSIDE THE EZ EDITOR AND YOU SEE ALL THE LITTLE SECTIONS THEN IT'S OK.  


6.  Choose the Ez Editor and then look for those grey buttons above, and look for the button which says  CREATE NEW HTML FILE.  
press it and it will take you into the Ez editor.  


7.  Ok, now, comes the fun.....   can you see that your window is now divides into 4 sections....well they call this frames.  

• the frame on the left, has lots of little bars to choose from...
• the frame on the right is were you will see your new page.
• the frame of the bottom is were you will type in what you want in your new page.  
  
  

Ok, lets get started...we are going to make a new page and then save it as your index.html page so by doing this you will change your index and your account will not get deleted.  OK.  


8.   Go to the frame on the left and on the first little bar, press down the arrow and choose  NEW.   then the little bars will change automatically for you.  


9.  Now press down on the arrow with the COLOR  on the bar, and choose BACKGROUND.  
    wait until you get lots of colours on the bottom frame.  Pick on of those squares at the bottom, pick which ever colour you like best.  

Then pick another and try them out....you will see the background on your new page in the frame on the right.  

Ok, now that we have a background we will put some TEXT.  


10.   Go to the left frame again and press down on the arrow next to the INSERT bar.    
pick out the TEXT   AND THE BOTTOM frame will change and you will get a big text box and some little one on top.  
in the big box, type in there what ever you want to come out on your new page.   

we will put a heading...OK.  


11.   So, go and pick the box which saids ALIGNMENT,
and choose CENTERED.
THEN get BOLD 
from the FONT STYLE bar then choose 24
from the text size and choose a colour from the bar next to the size bar  

now type in the big box... your username  or your name   and press SUBMIT....

  can you see your name on the top center frame....do you like it....change the colour if you don't like it.   


oK, NOW we have a heading....  Wow!!   it's easy...hey!!  


12.  Now we will put some space between our heading and our text body in our new page.  Ok.  so we are going to add a NEW LINE.   go to the INSERT bar on the left frame and choose NEW LINE
  2 buttons will apear on the bottom frame.        ADD    &   REMOVE

OK, add a new line.

to add another one you must go back to  the INSERT bar AND  insert a NEW LINE.  
REPEAT THIS FOR as many lines a you like.  


Ok, now we will put some body to your new page...we can not put some graphics because I don't know if you have any on your direcctory.  but if you write back I will tell you how to do this...  


13.   go and INSERT a separator by clicking on INSERT, and them choose SEPARATOR.   
  LOTS  of lines will apear on the bottom frame ....choose one...  
Wow!!  can you see it on the top center frame.   Looks good hey!!  

now insert some new lines to separeate the line and the new text we are going to put. 
repeat step 12.    


14.  now put some body to this new page. INSERT .....NEW TEXT....and the boxes will show up on the bottom frame again.  

type in the big box....SOME THINKG LIKE
" This home page is dedicated to my kindergarden work.  I will have lots of information on how to educate your children and some activities as well"  
SUBMIT IT.  


15.  now we will add a link to some favorate site we have...Ok. 
  as an example I will use my site as your link.

  so go and choose INSERT, then LINK....now you will get on the bottom frame a few new boxes.

  on the text box, put  PURPLELYNA'S PURPLE PLACE on the LINK BOX, put www.oocities.org/Heartland/Bluffs/9380   press     SUBMIT
and you will see the link on your top center frame  

YOU can change the colour and the size of the font.  


16.   NOW we are going to save our work.   REMEMBER TO SAVE IT AS index.html  so it can overwrite the file you have there now, and your account will not get deleted.  

Ok, go to the top bar on the left frame and choose the top bar and look for SAVE AS. 

  the bottom frame will change and you will get a space to put your file name. 
   in the space provided put the name   index    make sure you spell it the same.  

press SAVE  

THEN you will get a note a the bottome frame like Your file index.html has successfully been updated. You can view it in another window by clicking on it   AND that's it!!


  now you have creadred your first page in HTML without even knowing html.  

Ok, if you have any more questions, write to me...   see you.  

Graphics by:
Purplelyna