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Eureka Newsletter - May Issue - Volume 3 | Issue 4

What's New
In The May Edition
  • New Affiliates Sign On For PTP
    - more opportunities to earn from your home page. Plus the opportunity to win $1000 in the GeoCities monthly PTP contest.
  • Gadgets
    - intereactive fun for your home page. Caution! These Gadgets are addictive.
  • GeoMedia
    - Streaming Media made easy, sign up before May 13th and there's no charge!
    • Comical Caption Contest!

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    Welcome to the May Edition of the Eureka Today Newsletter. Those April showers caused a serious blossoming of new tools and toys from GeoCities. Check out what they've added and how they can enhance your page!

    Scrambled Easter Egg Hunt Winners! It wasn't that difficult, but only three people solved our puzzle. We had as much fun hosting it as they had solving it. Check out our winners and visit their pages. Keep an eye on this area for annoucements of future contest, we're sure to come up with another soon.

    		 Have you got an idea for a news article, or have you posted some information regarding business, web page building, or other related topic you would like covered in our newsletter? We would love to hear from you and include your ideas in our newsletter. To submit information or article to this newsletter please use the Contact Editor form.

    We are particularly interested in tutorials, graphic resources, web publishing tips, JavaScript Apps and other tools that would be of interest to our readership.

    New Affiliates to PTP

    As the Pages That Pay program continues to add to the list of affiliates they have added a couple of sure winners.

    SmarterKids.com provides educational software and more to assist in educating your children. The software programs are more readily accepted by children and are less expensive than tutors.

    Staples.com has also joined the ranks by providing a complete office supply store online. Who doesn't need toner, ink jet replacements, paper and more. As the program expands it provides more options for your viewership, and the opportunity for you to earn money from your home page.

    Check out the variety of affiliates you have to select from and build yourself a great PTP page and you could win $1000 in the monthly Pages That Pay contest held by GeoCities. They want to reward you for building an outstanding page, above and beyond the financial rewards of using this program. Here's your opportunity to host a virtual mall, with the endorsement and blessings of GeoCities. Best of all, the program is free and open to all Homesteaders.

    ET Reader Banner Exchange!

    Have you joined the Eureka Today Reader's Banner Exchange? Specifically for Eureka Homesteaders, this banner exchange program allows you the complete freedom to build the banner of your dreams, or the option of having us create one for you.

    The banners are displayed on the pages of the Eureka Today Newsletter and are randomly generated. You do not have to add a banner to your page, simply upload the banner you choose to run for this exchange and submit your application including the full directory path (URL) to your banner. Banner applications are updated weekly. Banners can be in JPEG, GIF, or animated GIF format and are standard 468 x 60... so go ahead, build that ultimate banner and we'll display it for you!

    You need Java to see this applet.
    Announcing
    Gadgets
    GeoCities has done it again! Now you can add Gadgets to your homepage. The Slot Machine to the left is just one of the many Gadgets you can add to your page. Simple to use, it gives you the cut & paste code to add your Gadget to your page, plus will take you directly to the file manager or GeoBuilder from the Gadget Factory so adding your Gadget is quick and painless.

    GeoCities has made it easy for any homesteader to add a Gadget, the coding is provided so you won't have to learn JavaScript or other language to achieve interactive toys for your page. Check out the complete list.

    New! GeoMedia

    Here's an offer from GeoCities that's hard to refuse... GeoMedia. What is GeoMedia? It is streaming media from your home page, audio or video. What can you do with it? Well... how about posting your wedding video, business presentation, an audio greeting, or favorite music to your page. Streaming presentations are great, they read and run simultaneously so your viewers will not have to wait for the entire presentation to download before it runs. This is an important factor with the impatience most viewers have with long page loading times.

    Eureka Homesteaders are made up of mostly business people and who could resist a better presentation than an entrepreneur. Perhaps your photos of an object that moves don't do it justice, videotape it while in motion and you can show your product rather than trying to describe it. Perhaps you wished you could add a custom audio greeting to viewers when they come to your page, now you can... and they won't have to wait forever for it to load and play. Check out the Showcase presented on the GeoMedia page to see it in action and decide for yourself if this is a tool you could use.

    Bonus! If you sign up for GeoMedia before May 13th, GeoCities will waive the $4.95 set-up fee. Your GeoMedia comes with 5 megs of storage space, and uses the RealPlayer G2 technology. What could be better!