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Career Portfolio Step 1: Obtain a Website Recommended: GeoCities
Career Portfolio
Step 1: Obtain a Website
Recommended: GeoCities
Reasons for using GeoCities:
1. It’s good2. It’s free!
What’s good about GeoCities?
1. Part of Yahoo!, It’s reliable, not a scam
2. 15 megs free webspace3. File Manager makes uploading
easy4. Advertising is not too bad.5. We know GeoCities well.
Downside of GeoCities…
1. There is some advertising2. 15 megs won’t hold much video
or music3. No FTP access for free accounts4. Bandwidth is restricted to 3
gigabytes per month.5. Websites are NOT SECURED –
everyone can see them!
How to deal with limited bandwidth –
15 megs/ filespace, 3 gigs bandwidth is good for:
1. lots of text, 2. A good number of photos, 3. A little music4. a tiny bit of video
How to deal with limited filespace and bandwidth:
You can purchase a better service for a few $ per month, offering:
- more bandwidth- more space- no ads- your own domain name
How to deal:
Feeling Insecure?
Follow Jim’s Rule:
“If you are not proud of it, don’t put it on the web!”
Alternatives to GeoCities…
1. Tripod: www.tripod.com2. FreeServers:
www.freeservers.com3. Google Pages4. A zillion other free webspots, all
with blessings and curses.
Getting Started, Steps:1. Create your web pages (See Using NVU)
2. Connect to Internet
3. Open your web browser (Internet Explorer, FireFox, AOL, etc.
4. Log into Geocities (www.geocities.com)
5. Create a Yahoo! Account (if you use Yahoo! E-mail, you already have Yahoo! Account)
6. Create a GeoCities Account
7. Go to “Manage” then “File Manager” and upload your website files
8. Check your uploaded pages to make sure they work as you intended.
www.geocities.com
Click Here
Click Here:
Or if you already have a Yahoo! ID, Sign In Here:
Answer all
questions:
Type in the weird
characters:
Click Here:
CJGS
alexander
jyawn51
*********
*********
Click Here:
Click Something
Click Submit
Click Something
Type in funny stuff
6JS72U
Write Down
Your URL!Then Click Here
Click “Manage”
Warning! DO NOT USE
“Create a Web Site”
Click “File Manager”
Click “Open File Manager”
GeoCities automatically creates a page for you named “index.htm”
Click “View My Site” to see it
You must replace this placeholder with your own page named “index.htm” or “index.html”
Doesn’t look like much, does it?
You must replace this “placeholder” page with your own work.
Close this page to return to the File Manager.
Click “Upload Files” to start getting your work onto your website.
Click “Browse” to find your webpage files
Use the “Look In:” utility to locate your webpage files.
Click on your “index.html” file and hit “Open”
This will place your “index.html” file in the lineup of files to be uploaded.
Click on the second Browse button to select another file
Continue to Browse and Open files until you have selected all you wish to upload at this time.
Then click “Upload Files”
Yahoo will indicate that your files have been uploaded (hopefully!)
Be sure to note any upload errors.
You may select to upload more files.
When finished uploading files, return to File Manager
File Manager will show your newly-uploaded files.
Check the list to make sure everything is there.
Click “View My Site” to see your page on the Web.
You may delete the “index.htm” file that GeoCities made for you.
Click This Tab to Get Rid of Advertisements
Tidying Up:
1. Check your work! Make sure all your links work and your documents come up as you intended.
2. Check your files! Go to a different computer or browser and pull up your website. This offers “proof” that your stuff is actually on the web.
3. When your page is done, send your instructor the URL (web address) of your web page. We recommend that you copy the URL from the Address bar on your browser, to avoid typing errors.
4. Send the URL to yourself, so you can check it the same way your instructor will. If it doesn’t work, you can make corrections before the deadline.
