Start immediately with multiple page sets

Takes only very basic understanding of HTML coding

Just edit your choice of Webpage formats

Change text and graphics to suit your interests

Create ordered lists, unordered lists, tables

You will learn how it works as you go

First Check out the page formats. Pick one to start with. [Follow the "Let's Go" link below to find and choose the formats.]

Copy the format to a file on your computer* [It is a good idea to set up a special directory or "folder" for all of your homepage files. You can use the name I gave the file, or change the name to one more meaningful to you. I have used 8-character filenames so they will be the same on systems that don't recognize long filenames.]

Open the file in "Notebook," or "Wordpad" (i.e., a text editor).

Edit the text on the format page to suit your needs Just delete the words I have put there, and write in your own!

Next check out the graphics listings. Decide which ones you like.

Copy graphic images you want to use to a file on your computer.* Copy these files into the same directory/folder that you set up for the formatting pages, as above.

Open your webpage file and change the names of graphics to the ones you chose. [When you do this, be careful to change only the filenames and NOT the HTML tags.]

To check your progress, you can open your homepage in your browser and take a look. In Netscape, for instance, you just click the mouse on "File," then "Open Page," which brings up a pull-down menu that lets you browse for the file you have been editing. If all the files are in the same directory, then the graphics and the links should work just as if you had them on your server. You may need to check the help files on your browser to get details on how this works, if you don't use Netscape.

When you are finished, upload your completed page and all graphic images to a Geocities Neighborhood of your choice! When you have saved everything into a special folder/directory, you can just upload all the files in the folder. Or, if you are able to place a webpage in a directory provided by your Internet Service Provider (ISP), follow their instructions for doing the upload.

Got you convinced?

Use the Geocities Form method to create a single page.

Several Geocities sites have different methods you may like better. Try some of them.

If you belong to America Online, they have homepage helps starting at this page. To get to the info you need, you can click on the "Get A QuickStart" button at the top of the page, and/or the Help button which is directly beneath it.

If you belong to Compuserve, they will help you get started too.

Check out my old homepage helper page for some ideas.

Some Internet Service Providers (ISPs) provide guidelines.

You can collect Graphic Images from many sources.

Use various search engines to look up the topics.

There are various HTML Tutorials like this one you can use to learn to do your own HTML coding.