Uploading your web page to the Internet
Congratulations! You have a web page and you
are ready to get your first website.
You should consider finding a FREE website.
You may already be eligible for a free website with your Internet Service
Provider (ISP), if not, search the Internet under Free
Web Hosting. Please keep in mind that nothing is really
free. If you get a free website from your Internet Service Provider, you
already pay for it when you pay your monthly service fee. If you get a
website from a free Internet hosting site, your pages are paid
for by those who paid your host to place ads on your web pages. If the web host
claims there are no ads, look for hidden costs.
I signed up for my first website with Geocities
in 1995 and I will give instructions on signing up with them simply
because I know more about this web host than others. You may decide to have
your web page hosted elsewhere and that web host will most likely be as
good, and maybe better than Geocities. I am only giving instructions for
Geocities because I am very familiar with it.
To get your free Geocities
website go to http://geocities.yahoo.com/
Click the tab that says Sign Up Now
under the tab that says Get a site for
free!
Enter your Yahoo! ID and
password if you are already a member, otherwise click Sign Up.
It is not a good idea to
use your name as an ID and you should never provide personal information on your
web page.
Sign In
Once you have your website
account you can sign it at:
https://login.yahoo.com/config/login_verify2?.src=geo&.intl=us&.done=http://geocities.yahoo.com/
(add this website to your favorites)
You are now in the GeoCities Control
Panel. You should take time to check the links in the Getting
Started box. Many of the questions you may have will be answered here.
Upload your first page
Your first page must be named: index.html
(all low case).
Click the Create Update tab.
Scroll down to the box labeled File
Management Tools
and click File Manager
Click the box that says Open
File Manager
Click the box that says Upload
Files
Click the Browse button
then find your files on your computer and make sure to include any image
files you may need.
Click Upload Files
Return to File Manager
You may need to Refresh
File Manager if your page does not open correctly.
Congratulations!
Your first web page is on
the Internet.
Your new web address is:
http://www.geocities.com/ plus your
yahoo ID
You may now add more pages to your website.
You may name your additional pages anything you wish, but make sure there
are no spaces in the page name.
example: mydog.html or mycat.html
Remember to create a link to these new
pages on your first page, index.html
