Athens Homesteader Help

Where can I find great graphics to get a head start on my page?  Where did my home page go?  How do I upload my page?  Where are the files I uploaded?They're not showing up!  How do I get rid of those geopops?  What happened to my counter???  Help with guestbooks  How do I put music on my page?  Where can I get more help on geocities?  Where can I get help and advice outside geocities?

Where did my home page go?

• You uploaded or edited your page, but the old one still appears in your browser:
• Use the "reload" or "refresh" function of your browser to see the new version.
• Check that you named the new page correctly.  Lower and upper case (capitalization) matters!  so does spelling!  You can view the files on your site using the File Manager Utility.
• If you used FTP to upload your page, there is a delay.  It might be a few hours if Geocities is very busy.  Look again later.  And be sure you used the correct member name and password when you used the FTP program.  Check the Geocities FTP Procedures help page.

• Your whole site has disappeared and you find the site empty or with somebody else's material there:  Using your member name, or the email address you used when you signed up, visit the "lost password" page.
• If your member name or email address aren't found, then just sign up for a new page.  Geocities probably reclaimed your page:
• because you didn't make changes to a new site in their grace period
• because you had long abandoned a site
• because Geocities found violations of their member guidelines on your page, and suspended the page.
• because you left your password in view on the page (the most common error is to include it as part of the counter link), or it was easy to guess from your member name or content on the page, or a "friend" in your life found the password and decided to play a practical joke on you -- and the person who found or guessed your password removed your membership from geocities
• In any of these cases where your name or email address is unknown to Geocities, simply sign up for a new site. If you have backups of your files (use your browser's "save as" functions to save pages that you edited using Geocities utilities, otherwise keep copies if you edit the pages with another page editor on your computer), then put them on the new site.
• If your member name or email address is found, check your email for the correct address of your site and go check it there.
• If your member name is found, and you don't receive the email with the password from the "lost password" utility, and you find material on your site different from what you put up there, you probably revealed your password.  See above.  If the password is still as you left it, you can change it again (to something less available!) and restore your site from backups (see above).  Otherwise, sign up for a new site under a different member name.

• You can upload the page using the Geocities EZ-Upload Utility, Geocities File Manager or using an FTP program.
• Geocities EZ-Upload Utility: The easiest way to upload if you:
• have Netscape 2.0 or greater
• have Internet Explorer MSIE 4.0+ (or some versions of MSIE 3.0 with extensions available from Microsoft.)
• Geocities File Manager: You can use the various file managers to edit your pages.  If you already have the HTML coding done and it's already in a file on your system, open the HTML file with a text editor (or use whatever option your page-editing gives you to look at your HTML in text form).  Cut-and-paste the HTML code into the Advanced File Manager.
• FTP: follow the instructions on the FTP program, specifying your Geocities member name and password.  Be sure you are uploading to ftp.geocities.com.  Be sure you keep capitalization and spelling exactly as you have specified them in any links to your page.

 

• Use the "reload" or "refresh" function of your browser to see the new version.
• Check that you named the new page correctly.  Lower and upper case (capitalization) matters!  so does spelling!  You can view the files on your site using the File Manager Utility.
• If you used FTP to upload your page, there is a delay.  It might be a few hours if Geocities is very busy.  Look again later.  And be sure you used the correct member name and password when you used the FTP program.  Check the Geocities FTP Procedures help page.

• You will have to either upgrade your account to the paid geoplus program, or use the geoguide.
• Be sure to activate your geoguide after you have put it on the page!

• If you have a Geocities counter
• Geocities counters have been acting strangely for a while, resetting to very high numbers or resetting to zero.  Visit the counter management pages to reset your counters.
• If you set your counter before late 1997, then the procedures have changed, and you should update your counter at the Geocities counter management pages.
• Check the Geocities counter help pages.
• Visit one of the counter services (such as www.digits.com) and install their counter instead of or in addition to the Geocities counter.
• Counters from other services
• Check the documentation with your counter service
• Be sure to check capitalization and spelling on the URL (web address) that you've used to specify the counter location.

• The most common errors are
• Using the URL "addbook.html" to add an entry to your book.  Link to the URL instead.
• On your addbook.html, specifying the URLs for images incorrectly. See the Geocities help page on guestbooks for the correct information.
• Visit the Geocities help page on guestbooks.

Check out the page at Crescendo to see several techniques for adding "midi" (.mid) files to your page. ("Midi" files take less space for the length of the musical piece, compared to a "WAVE" (.wav) file of the same music.)

And no, to my knowledge, you cannot put RealAudio files on Geocities.

Visit the Athens Homesteader Help Web Ring list of help sites, and see if anyone there can answer your questions

• Visit Geocities Members Page
• XPert's Help at Geocities/SiliconValley  Help designed with Geocities homesteading in mind

•  Web Site Garage Tune up your web site with the helpful tools at this site
• more sites coming ....

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