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Edit and Upload: This is how I recommend that you edit your pages at GeoCities.

Create a directory on your PC to keep all the HTML (.htm, .html) files and Image (.jpg, .gif) files for your pages (I named my directory c:\sands1492). This is the master copy of your pages, the copy at GeoCities is just so other people can view your pages.

Creating your first (home) page. If you want to create a totally new home page, follow the instructions in the next paragraph, creating a file named index.html (this is the default page name for GeoCities addresses). If you are just starting and want to use the GeoCities Starter Page. Logon to the Internet, then using MS Internet Explorer, browse to your GeoCities address (for me it would be: http:www.oocities.org/SouthBeach/Sands/1492). You should be viewing the page GeoCities automatically generated for you. On the MS Internet Explorer 'Edit' menu, select the 'Page' submenu item. FrontPage Express should open, and download the page. In FrontPage Express, on the 'File' menu, select the 'Save As' submenu item. When the Save As dialog opens, push the 'As File' button in the bottom right. Navigate the Save As File dialog to your page directory on your PC (mine is c:\sands1492), then in the 'File name' entry field fill in: index.html (this is the default page name for GeoCities addresses).

To create a new page, open the Windows Explorer, then navigate to your page directory on your PC (mine is c:\sands1492). Click your Right Mouse Button in a blank area in the directory window, on the PopUp Menu, select the 'New' menu item, on the submenu pick: New Microsoft HTML Document 4.0.html . Windows Explorer will create a new file and highlight it. Rename the file to a name appropriate for your page (note: use only lowercase letters and numbers eg: page1234.html). Then double click on the new page file, and FrontPage Express will open with a blank page. As an alternative, you can start FrontPage Express from the Windows Start Menu, create a new page and then save it to your directory.

To edit an existing page in your directory, open the Windows Explorer, then navigate to your page directory on your PC (mine is c:\sands1492). Click your right Mouse Button on the file for the page, then on the PopUp Menu, select 'Edit', FrontPage Express will then Open, loading your page. As an alternative, you can start FrontPage Express from the Windows Start Menu, then use the FrontPage Express Menu 'File/Open' to open your page file.

After you have created a page or made changes, you then upload your page(s) and image files to GeoCities. On my Upload Page, I give several of the options for uploading your files to GeoCities. Remember, the files on your PC are the master copy of your pages, you normally edit your pages from your local PC directory, and then upload them to GeoCities.

Direct Edit and Save: Although you can do this at GeoCities, I don't recommend it, you can waste a lot of time trying to save your page, and never succeed.

To edit your page, logon to the Internet, then using MS Internet Explorer, browse to your page at GeoCities.You should be viewing the page you want to edit in MS Internet Explorer, on the 'Edit' menu, select the 'Page' submenu item. FrontPage Express should open, and download the page. You can than edit your page and make any changes you want.

To save your page from FrontPage Express, on the 'File' menu, select 'Save'. If you are creating a new page, select 'Save As' and fill in the full GeoCities address for the page in the Page Location field (eg. http://www.oocities.org/SouthBeach/Sands/1492/extab1.htm), and press OK (Note: You must capitalize the address correctly). You will get several dialogs as FrontPage Express tries to publish the page to GeoCities. Whenever it asks for your UserId and Password, enter your GeoCities member name and password. Eventually (after many dialogs) you will get to a dialog asking for FTP Information, fill in the following:

FTP Server: ftp.oocities.com

SubDirectory: /Neighbor/Hood/1234

Filling in your GeoCities neighborhood and address for the SubDirectory (eg. /SouthBeach/Sands/1492)
Note: You must capitalize the address correctly (GeoCities is case sensative).

If you are lucky, and GeoCities isn't busy (it is quite frequently), your page will be uploaded to GeoCities. If you are unlucky, GeoCities will be busy, or some other error will occur, then you have to start all over again. After you have tried this a few times, you will know why I don't recommend this method at GeoCities.