FRONT PAGE CAN ONLY PUBLISH TO PRO & BUSINESS ACCOUNTS!

Because Front Page 2002 server extensions work only with domain-based web sites, Front Page publishing via HTTP is no longer supported for GeoCities Plus and GeoCities Free services. You can, however, still make your pages with Front Page and then upload them to your site using EASY UPLOAD (see below) or you can try the publish method.

In the following, FP/DW/WSW will mean either Front Page, Dreamweaver or Word depending upon which one you use as the discussion applies to all of them.

NOTE: To edit a Front Page (FP) made web page in HTML check the toolbar at the top of the FP screen. Look for VIEW > HTML. Clicking of this or a similar link should allow you to edit your web page in the HTML MODE.

There are several important thing you should be aware of when using FP/DW/WSW files

1. Graphic file should not have spaces in the name.

2. When making your page with FP/DW/WSW, put all graphics either (a) in the same folder as the file you are creating, e.g. "web pages" or (b) in a sub-folder of this folder, e.g. "graphics. Your graphics will work on the web if you uploaded your graphics to your main file manager in the same relation.

   Correct HTML references (in your source code) would look like this:

   <img src="graphics/picture B">
   <img src="picture A">

   If they are in a folder of your C Drive, e.g. folder 2, then FP/DW/WSW will use, as a reference one of the following locations on your C drive for the graphics.

   <img src="C:/folder 2/picture B">
   <img src="../folder 2/picture B">

   This will not work on the web as the browser can not see up one level from your file manager.

   NOTE: If you have the graphics used by FP/DW/WSW web pages in the same folder as the web pages, then your can save the web page to that folder and then use EASY UPLOAD to put the files in your file manager. If the graphics are in a sub-folder of your FP/DW/WSW web page folder, be sure to create a similar named sub-directory in your file manager and upload the graphics there.

3. If you are using graphics that are in a sub-folder under FP/DW/WSW folder, then you have to (a) create a sub-directory in your file manager of the same name and (b) upload your graphics to this sub-directory.

4. If you have your graphics in a folder that is not a sub-folder of your web pages then you will either have to (a) move the entire folder so that it is a sub-folder of FP/DW/WSW folder or (b) put all the graphics in the same folder as the web pages.

5. GeoCities no longer allows the use of FTP with FP/DW/WSW to free geocities member's pages.

6. GeoCities Premium accounts, i.e. PRO & Business, now supports all Front Page extensions.

7. If you have a PRO or Business premium account, which allows the use of FTP, go ahead and publish directly from FP/DW/WSW to your Yahoo! GeoCities homestead.See http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/geo/frontpage/frontpage-02.html. Microsoft Office 2000 users can also publish their Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, and PowerPoint(R) presentations to their Yahoo! GeoCities premium sites.

8. If you have a premiums account, you can move both the html file(s) and the graphic(s) to your file manager by using FP/DW/WSW Publish by using ftp.domainame, e.g. ftp.mydomainname.com. You may be required to enter your password.

9. GeoCities say in their Subdirectory Help Page that you can only have two levels of sub-directories. In tests, however, I have created up to four levels subdirectories. As with anything involving GeoCities all you can do is try and see what happens. Perhaps it would be best to stick with two levels deep, e.g. www.geocities.com/member-name/sub1/sub2/.

WHY? FOR FRONT PAGE & DREAMWEAVER & WORD

Question: Why can't I upload (publish) to my GeoCities home page? Answer: Recently, Yahoo/GeoCities stopped the use of FTP (uploading/downloading file) to GeoCities FREE member sites. This may cause Front Page (FP), Dreamweaver (DW), or Word users, who have a free site, to not being able to publish their pages. You should read GeoCities' help page for Front Page to see exactly what you can do. If FP/DW/WSW doesn't have any special files that need to be in special folders on your site then you can try uploading the files using either EASY UPLOAD, which is a link on GeoCities' main page, or UPLOAD FILES in your file manager. Question: Why are my graphics not displaying? I uploaded them. Answer: FP/DW/WSW reference graphics on your page relative to where the graphics are stored on your PC. Several examples will illustrate how both FP/DW/WSW reference graphics. Each of the example will use the graphically representation of a C:\ Drive on your PC. In both cases we will assume that your web pages are stored in the folder named FRONT PAGE.     The wrong way #1! Suppose your web pages are stored in the folder named WEBPAGES and the graphics are stored in the folder named IMAGES. A graphic, picture.jpg, in the IMAGES folder will be referenced in your web page using HTML code like this: <img src="../images/picture.jpg"> This HTML code tells a browser to go to (a) go up one level, in this case to the C: and then down to the folder named IMAGES and get the graphic, picture.jpg. This will work fine on your PC. Now if you upload the web page and the picture.jpg to your main file manager the graphic will not display as it is in the wrong place! The browser displaying your page can not go up one level from your file manager as that would be the host's folder which you can not access. SOLUTION TO THESE PROBLEMS This is most difficult problem to solve as the graphics are in the wrong place in your file manager and the code for referencing them. The easiest solution would be to do the following if you only have made a few pages. Rename the Graphic folder, under the WEBPAGE folder, to images. Move the graphics in Images folder to images folder. edit each page that uses the graphics in the HTML mode and remove the "../" in all the references to graphic, e.g. from "../images/picture.jpg" to "images/picture.jpg". If you solve the problem this way then be sure that all new pages you make use graphics store in the graphics file and the graphics are uploaded to the file manager sub-directory named graphics. Wrong way #2! Suppose that your web pages are stored in the folder WEBPAGES and your graphics are stored in the folder, GRAPHICS, which is a sub-folder of WEBPAGES. Then the reference to the graphic will look like this: <img src="graphics/picture.gif"> If you upload the web page and the graphics to your main file manager the graphics will not display as there is no sub-folder (or sub-directory) named graphics in your file manager. SOLUTION TO THIS PROBLEMS You need to: Create a sub-directory in your file manager named graphics. Move all the graphics from the main file manager to this sub-directory. There is a move button in your file manager.