Yahoo is one of the big boys on the (WWW) World Wide Web. They have some 185 million users each month. Therefore they get lots of other companies advertising on there sites and search engines. That in my opinion is the big downfall with anything...
This service use to be great. I started with them in June 1997 because I really needed something to do to occupy my boredom and figured this was a great way to do it. Okay, in 1997 you got 2 MB's of space but back then that was enough. Also, in 1997...
Pros: easy to use, fast and quick loading, it's free, 15MB of space, a small banner Cons: Only 15MB of space, a small banner
Since I love building web page so much, you can guess I have tried my share of free web hosts. Yahoo! GeoCities, in my eyes, is in the top three that I would use. Once you sign up for Yahoo! GeoCities you get all the benefits that comes...
Pros: FTP/browser upload; Short URL. Cons: You cannot install your own CGI scripts; Advertisements make the browser crash.
About four years ago I built my first webpage and proudly uploaded it at this seemingly wonderful place called Geocities. I loved being part of a community and I liked the fact that I was a GeoCitizen (don’t ask me why). Over the time, I got frustrated...
Pros: FREE, 15 MB of space, easy to use, many add-ons and ways to make a website Cons: technical support, banner, little amount of space
Yahoo! GeoCities is one of the many places out there where you can make a free homepage. Recently, is was taken over by Yahoo!. Now, if you are a Yahoo! member, you do not have to sign up. There are more and better features now than there were...
Yahoo! Geocities is one of the many free services available on the web that provide space, tools and, resources for you to create your own web pages. Generally, these services are very similar, but each have their own strong points and...
After trying a few free websites, I found Geocities and have been there for well over 5 years. Amazingly enough after being there for 5 years, I wouldn't trade it in for any other website. Angelfire, Zoom, AOL, CBJ don't even compare to what Geocities...
Pros: easy to use, lots of features, 15 MB of space Cons: it is so popular that many choice names are already taken
If you want to build a webpage, Yahoo! Geocities is a good place to start out. Just sign up for an account and you are on your way. They have templates to choose from to create a nice looking page for the beginner, or if you are more experienced, you can...
Everyone out there knows that it’s never easy to pick out just the right Christmas present, especially on a limited budget. My parents I know well enough to pick something out—anything golf for my dad and “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” for my mom (she...
Pros: Easy to use, Great support and help, Variety, Many Communities Cons: lengthy URL, geared for the individual user
If you want to build a website look no further than Geocities! Owned by Yahoo!, Geocities is an easy way to create a website for the amateur. Granted your url may look very funky and long, but that is a tradeoff that must be made for creating your own...
Pros: easy for non-programmers, free, decent amount of space Cons: sometimes frustrating "services" and meta-tag producer flaws
I have just recently posted an almost-finished site using a combination of Yahoo! Geocities as well as Microsoft Front Page. Overall, I am happy with the outcome, especially because of my limited knowledge of HTML, or any other program language for that...
UPDATE: In early September 2002, I finally received my payment--issued in mid-August, some six months after they were supposed to have been sent out--from Yahoo!Geocities. I have therefore boosted their rating to 2 stars, but still will leave the...
Pros: Free enough room to keep you going for a while Cons: Slow it certain parts of the week, pop-up ad's are annoying.
I just got done reading a bunch of the over 100 or so opinions on Yahoo Geocities and figured I'd throw my two cents in the mix. I have had a home on Geocities for maybe a year or so now, and I love it more than I hate it. There seems to be a lot...
Pros: Loads pretty fast for the size of the community, The Yahoo Clubs, Easy editing of pages and easy for beginners to learn. Cons: There oversized banners, some communities there are homes avalible.
Since I built my first homepage, Id say close to 4 years ago. I choose Tripod to be my first home on the net, after a while I started building homepages for friends from chats. Tripod was giving me nothing but problems up till a couple years ago...
I originally had AOL and accompanying page. When their builder went to cr@p, I searched and found Yahoo.
Out of the many web sites and their web builders, Yahoo's is one of the easiest to use.
I've had my web page there for over a year....
I have had my Geocities website for about a year now. At first I really got into the whole process of creating my webpage etc...When I first begun, my ex computer whiz Justin, convinced me that I could build and manage it myself. I was very hesitant...
Pros: large storage, FTP capabilities, help when it is needed Cons: Don't lose your password!
I have been a member of Geocities for years now. It has been growing in leaps and bounds since I joined somewhere back around 1995 or 1996. I started out with a relatively small amount of webspace. I can’t remember exactly, but I think it was 2 MB...
Pros: User friendly, excellent support system, generally robust system, Free Cons: Largeness can make the service impersonal, advertising pop ups
A few years ago when I decided to incorporate the Internet in my classroom, I began looking for the best free services I could find. I was a newbie to making my own web pages, but knew that I wanted to start them with basic HTML and wanted to teach my...
2 months ago, I got introduced to the world of website building by a friend of mine and now I hope with this review, more people would take the step to create their own website.
Free Homepages
Years ago if you wanted a free website and your ISP didn't offer free space, Geocities was the only place to go. People flocked to Geocities and didn't mind their ads because for ABSOLUTELY NO MONEY they could get 2 MB of...
Pros: Cheap. Even free if you are willing to deal with ads Cons: Ads for free site are very annoying and inconvenient, slow, poor tools
Geocities certainly seems to have gone a bit more commercial now that Yahoo has bought them. If you want to just have a free website on geocities, you need to deal with the incredibly annoying roll-down advertisements they use. I normally do not have a...
Pros: Great site to express yourself, free the writer, thinker, dreamer within Cons: Have to worry about being rated-what is this, a beauty pageant?
So I'm missing the point of why we are all gathered together under one web site, invisible...I mean indivisible, with liberty and injustice for all...but I just can't honestly judge someone else's epinions without feeling a tinge of guilt and hypocrisy....
Pros: A lot of webspace Cons: some problems with technical difficulties
Experience
For years now, I've had the opportunity to work with many different free webpage account providers. Places like, fortunecity.com, angelfire.com, xoom.com, theglobe.com, and a few other places. Among those that I used most, and...
Pros: community support, lots of help info Cons: its down now and then, but not enough to make a real difference
I have been using Yahoo-Geocities for over 2 years now. When my family began, I wanted a way to show them off to family and friends on the web. As I'm a horrible person for sending updates or photos, it was a perfect way for me to share my family with...
Pros: easy to use, easy to manage. Cons: file uploads can be slow.
I came to the important decision that I needed some webspace and possibly even my own homepage. After reviewing personal homepages of some cyber friends and businesses I settled on Yahoo!Geocities.
When choosing a web space it is important to...
When I began experimenting with the computer I had never heard of Yahoo! I wasn't really around a lot of internet users so I pretty much just wandered around for awhile.
I began with AOL service and didn't deviate too much from that. Then I...
I started my first website at geocities almost two years ago. After the usual problems and frustrations of a complete newbie trying to learn html my site grew and grew. Last time it was spidered it had 290 pages. My site has been pretty active and I...
As I read through some of the reviews for Geocities I was amazed to see how many 3,4 and 5-star reviews were given to Geocities. Perhaps all of these reviewers haven't tried any other free website community. Perhaps Geocites has paid each and every one...
Pros: Free, but see below. Cons: You get what you pay for. Geocities was great BEFORE it merged with Yahoo. And that's not all.
Then
I joined Geocities (NOTICE no Yahoo here) almost 3 years ago. What I liked about it was the friendliness and helpfulness of the Community Leaders, the ease to set up a simple page, and the closeness that could be achieved by a small...
Pros: Free, OK service, fast uploads, FTP, OK add ons. Cons: Very confusing for beginners, takes time to learn features. Awful help.
As a long time member and a founder of two separate web sites on Geocities, I have had few problems. As I started way back in summer 2000 I found it very difficult getting used to the system that Geocities uses, through registering, I was never told my...
Pros: Simple interface, flexible editing, fairly good free server. Cons: Too much advertising, FTP problems, has not changed for the better.
About a year after I had joined Geocities I was rather perturbed to notice that it had been bought out by Yahoo! and felt a little worried by what it would mean for the service. It turns out I had every right to be worried.
Pros: Runs off battle-tested servers; lots of extras; more space than beginning webmaster will need Cons: Yahoo! shifting to paid service; free service slowly being compromised
UPDATE: With Yahoo having removed the FTP access from the free accounts, I find most of Geocities' virtue gone. If you don't plan to run a major site out of Geocities, go ahead.
I started out at Geocities three years ago. Back...
Pros: Probably the over-all best web-site hosting service. Cons: Buggy; sometimes slow; you will never get a famous site out of geocities.
Geocities is a very good web-hosting service, but it's not a great one. It's the first place I went to for web-hosting, and I was lucky to have found the perfect hosting service for beginners.
Pros: Easy. Free. Lots of Space. Small Advertisement. Cons: Bad File Importing. Long Domain Name.
If you are looking for an easy site builder than this is the one for you. It gives you the ease of not paying anything and the ease of doing it quick and easy. I would use this site builder if you are just a person who would like to make a small site....
Pros: Lots of free space, easy for beginner (You don't have to know HTML or any programming), FTP access for those more experienced (BIG PLUS!) Cons: Banner Ads on Every Page!!!
That would be my only complaint about Geocities - THE BANNERS! I don't understand why every page must have a banner ad on it. When you create layouts that involve frames, banners pop up in EVERY frame (occasionally this is avoidable). This can really...
Pros: Fast, easy to use Cons: No search or threads
Note: This review was originally posted under the Yahoo! Communities category. When Epinions did some reorganizing, it landed here. I have contacted the Category Manager, and it should be moved eventually.
Pros: Easy to use so good for a beginner. Cons: Merged with Borghoo, umm, sorry, Yahoo.
I remember the old Geocities. Before Yahoo, before the boycott, before the mass exodus to find other hosting. In a way I guess Yahoo did me a favor because I found much better free hosting than I ever had with Geocities before or after the merger.
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Pros: The Truth Hurts--Ouch! Cons: Honesty is the Best Policy!
Okay BreathMynt, so you (and many others) didn't like my spoof and commentaries of epinions.com. I guess you either can't see the humor behind my sarcasm, or else my type of writing, straight from the gut vs. the brain, just doesn't appeal to you. I...
Pros: Lots of space to work with, good tutorials Cons: Can run slow at times
I began my stint with Geocities way back before they made their merge with Yahoo. Back then, it was a fairly simple service, albeit a tad slow. They offer tutorials for the HTML challenged(as I was at the time) and plenty of helpful hints and links to...
Pros: free web space Cons: slow, server is down a lot, files get corrupted, becareful of new features because you might implement them today and they are gone tomorrow with out warning
In the beginning there was Geocities.
I have had a web site on Geocities since 1996. Let me invite you to come and visit my homepage. After visiting my homepage I think most people will give my review a little more creditability...
Pros: It's free, has a lot of visibility, and offers help for new webmasters. Cons: Banner ads, pop-up advertisement windows, and all the things you can't do with your GeoCities site.
To put it bluntly, I was a member right up to the point when, as Yahoo! proclaimed its purchase of GeoCities, it also decreed that all existing GeoCities web sites (and the materials contained therein) would become Yahoo! property. As soon as my...
Pros: 15 MB of free space, web building program available, small ad banners Cons: the web building program crashes, still need to put up with ad banners
Last summer, I finally opted to have my own website, although I had zero knowledge on how to use HTML programming code. I then found Geocities.com and signed up for a free web account (FREE, you can't beat that price). Geocities.com was a little...
Pros: Very easy to use, lots of webs pace, for me anyway. Cons: Some features cost money.
Before I learned about all these other web page making websites, I was stuck with AOL. I was so bad with it's slow uploading (keep in mind I'm always using a 56k), bad HTML (using copy/paste from other websites wouldn't appear right), and, at least back...
Pros: Easy to use, great add ons, good for html and for wizards Cons: None yet.
I am in college for computers and have enjoyed all of my computer classes, but couldn't wait to take HTML. I was really interested in learning more about it. When the class started, I was impressed with what you could do with it. I had previously used...
Pros: free web space Cons: Annoying full-sized pop-up window, bad experiences
GeoCities was one of the first web site communities I joined back around 1995. Up until then, my projects had been on free university web space and on the old freenets (remember them???) that you accessed through a telnet connection. So it seemed a...
Pros: Free and ample rrom and space for beginners Cons: Amlost Everything
Well.. Let me begin with a little background. I first leaned html, in a true html editor.. like front page... I then let it slide for a couple years. Then I resorted to WYSIWYG type programs.. as I will epinionize later, they basically suck. I had to...
Pros: Free, Easy, Lots of add-ons Cons: Pop-up ad, slight lag from time to time
Geocities is a great place to send people who aren't too familiar with setting up their own web site. The tools that they offer with their service allow you to create, upkeep and spice up your pages without really needing to know any HTML. And it's...
Pros: this is a pretty decent learning site Cons: I recommend homepage.com over geocities.com for a beginner page
When I was first starting out with my own homepage I was looking for one thing and one thing only, FREE. I didn;t want to sign up for a homepage and then discover that I didn;t like it. So, free was my main criteria. After using a number of free...
Pros: Ease of use, nice interface, CL Program, lots of snazzy add-ons, plenty of tutorial help, novices will have no problem designing their site. Cons: Strict content guidelines, mandatory ad boxes, merger with Yahoo! has lessened community aspect and appeal.
While in college, during some long, boring hours of work at the front desk of my residence hall, I decided that since everybody else had one, I just had to have a website of my own. Not being made of money, I decided to check out one of the free hosting...
Pros: Easy to use and free! Cons: Banners must appear on all pages
Review of Geocities.com (October 10, 2000)
I love the internet. I love all of the information stored here. I love to learn about new things. I also love things that are free! With this said, how can I not absolutely love Geocities.com free...
I just signed up with geocities. I've been having problems with homepages at Hotmail and decided to try another free homepage service. The thing I like about geocities is the fact that you can upload up to 20 files. It even puts all your file in...
So far I've only tried two homepage communities, meaning sites that give you webspace for making a webpage: homestead and geocities. Geocities is a good service. It's free and it's got an easy WYSIWYG (What you see is what you get) webpage editor. you...
Pros: easy, hassle free login, user friendly community, extra add-ons, pop-up ads now changed, community search engine, even with the Yahoo merger, one of the first around remains one of the best Cons: they've given you more space but still not as much as others, long URLS (but do have shortcuts now)
Geocities, ranked number 7 for now, among the webspace communities for your webpage, is a very good server for you to choose to build your new site on! I’ve tried others like, Tripod, Angelfire, and Zoom, for other parts of my site, or just to help...
Pros: You don't need to know html and be a computer whiz Cons: some odd things happen, and it's not aol friendly.
Well I have AOL and everyone said Geocities was the best place to build a page. So I went, but I couldn't build right away. Why not? well, I have AOL, which doesn't support Page Builder, the easy way to build with Geocities. I had a MAC at this time,...
Pros: It's free. Cons: You pay for the "free" service with frustration and tacky ads.
Back in the day (early 1995), I set up my very first website on Geocities. The fact that I could only edit the pages in HTML and I had to do it while online at Geocities didn't bother me too much. I knew HTML pretty well and I didn't have a good web...
Pros: Fast, easy uploads, easy to use file manager, Cons: pop-up windows
I have tried a number of other build-your-own-homepage sites -- Fortunecity [long down times, slow uploads], Talkcity [extremely difficult file manager], Tripod, Xoom [the less said the better] -- and Geocities is by far the easiest and the best. I have...
I have been with Geocities for over two years now. I signed up pretty much to get myself my own web site space (http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Tower/2937/)and get the feel of how it was to have one. But after a year my priorities have changed since I...
Pros: Ease of use, small popup option, one sign in for mail, webspace, and messenger. etc... Cons: Would like to see the return of the Community Leaders!
OK! I know there are a lot of Geo-bashers out there who are gonna say that I am just sucking up. Well, sorry to disappoint you but I am just stating facts.
Fact: Yahoo!-GeoCities has one of the best free home page programs around, if not the...
Pros: none Cons: the extra benefits that you're paying for aren't benefits at all
This will go down as one of the most irritating learning experiences in my life. I had to move my website in a hurry because my friend who was hosting it was selling his servers with his business. I picked GeoCities Plus because it was quick, offered me...
Pros: Very user friendly, downtime at a minimum Cons: Allows you to choose your neighboorhood but doesn't really let you personalize your URL
It's the "in" thing nowadays to be on the web and have your own homepage up for all the world to see. It's great to be able to give a friend a website address to be able to share pictures rather than clog up the recipient's account by sending...
I built my first page with Geocites and maintained it regularly for over a year. I then found that they had merged with Yahoo. That is where the trouble began.
I originaly built my web page with with the Geobuilder provided by Geocities....
Pros: Modeled after GeoCities' orginal designs Cons: It's just not "home" anymore
When Yahoo! took over the GeoCities community about a year ago, a lot changed. As a community leader at GeoCities for six months, I saw a network of dedicated volunteers who were enjoying their online experience. The system had a welcoming feel to...
So long ago that I barely remember it I started playing on the internet. I thought about how cool it would be to have my own webpage, but it costed so much to have. All I wanted to do is provide people with information for free. Things that I have...
I can remember when I first stumbled across Geocities and thought how cool. I know some people that do not have homepages with their ISP or just do not know how to do homepages and live to far away from me for me to help them so I hooked them up with...
So you want your own space on the web? You need to use Yahoo! Geocities. I have had a web site with them for three years. Yahoo! Geocities has just what you need.
For novices they have Yahoo! PageWizards. All you have to do is answer a few...
Pros: easy to use, dependable, free, frequent changes Cons: pop-up ads, lack of support, frequent changes
People who say you can't breathe life into a dead horse weren't around to see the recent merger between Yahoo! and Geocities. Almost overnight Geocities went from a internet community that few trusted and was known for its problems to a company that...
Pros: Free webspace. Cons: The little "perks" that can tick you off.
I had a homepage there but Tripod was what I used the most. When Yahoo assimilated (good term, huh?) Geocities, Many members had lost their membername. You couldn't keep what you had at Geocities because it was already taken at yahoo. So if you were a...
Pros: free service, requires no html skill, pro looking pages Cons: page builder takes about 3 minutes to load
When I wanted to start creating a website, I knew right from the start that I didn't want to pay for a domain name. I was looking for the best free webpage hosting that didn't require much web design skills, but still made you have a professional style...
Pros: You can be very creative while building your pages!!! Cons: The webtools are good, but Freeserves.com offers much more!!!!
If you want an accurate opinion about setting up a webpage, I must say that I used to love Geocities and found it fun and easy to use!!! Yet, fun is not everything that I am looking for when I make my website!! I just set up a small business and found...
Pros: The ads minimize after a so long, they load up fast, rarely ever any downtime Cons: you need more space!
Either geocities is small or I just need a lot of room! Which is which, I don't know! Khadijah's World (My daughter's webpages) start out at Geocities and then branch out. I have two accounts on Geocities and another on angelfire in which I store all...
I don't exactly remember when the idea of creating a homepage came to me, but when it did I signed up for the first free service I found online. At the time it happened to be geocities. I clicked the link to get there and signed up immediately. It took a...
Pros: Cheap or free listings Cons: no one sees your listing
I was tired of trying to sell on EBay with so much competition for the same bids on 300 items just like the one I just got in todays shipment...So, I decided to try Yahoo Auctions.., I spent an hour and a half listing 30 items before Christmas... Good...
Pros: supports HTML 3.2 and 4.0 combined, has 15Meg of space, and a code Library available Cons: tiny little ad shows when you view the page
Geocities is one of the best places I think for free web space. You don't even have to be beginner as many people who know HTML 4.0, JAVA, and cgi use their web space. Even though at times it has been known for its reputation of having Porn pages it also...
Pros: free,fast,easy Cons: boring cgi-bin guestbook, FTP's may mysteriously disappear
I have been using geocities since before it merged with Yahoo. I have loved it before and ever since! Many moons ago, if you wanted to build a webpage, you used geocities. Then came tripod, angelfire, xoom, and a slew of others. But, I...
Pros: Easy to build. Looks very professional. Easy to locate Cons: Haven't encountered any yet.
Upon acquiring an ancient computer for the first time at the age of 61, I had very little idea of what the Internet was all about. I believe that we older denizens of the UK are at least several decades in arrear when it comes to our USA counterparts and...
Pros: very easy to use, great place for beginners, quick building time, good features Cons: pop up banner, unproffesional, annoying at times, etc
Definitely for the Yahooligian in the “heartland”.
Lets take a journey to Geocities; it’ll be a short one most likely, with mixed impressions and pop up banners gleefully appearing in your browser. No…don’t try to close them; it’ll only prolong...
All right. I have a debt of gratitude towards Geocities for allowing me to place my movie reviews there before I started to find better homes from them like Epinions.com and Filmcritic.com. I have another debt of gratitude on behalf of Richard...
Pros: 15 MB of space, which is, really, more than enough for the average user; "Pages That Pay"; a tolerable customizable ad-square instead of a big honking banner ad Cons: PageBuilder; many complain of useless, 'canned' responses from Yahoo! Customer Care.
I put up my very first home page using GeoCities as a host in the spring of 1996. Virtual domain hosting wasn't as widely available or inexpensive as it is now, and certainly the project I was undertaking at the time wasn't on grand enough a scale to...
Pros: Nice amount of web space given. Good load time. Cons: Pop-ups! I can't stand those things. Also, the extremely long URL's.
I signed up for Geocities way way back, before it was Yahoo! Geocities, and other than the Yahoo! name on it, and the huge influx of people on it now, it doesn't look like much has changed. I mean that in a good and bad way.
Pros: Newby friendly Cons: Used to be a great service with help
I have been on the internet for about 2 years now. When I first started, I was into genealogy. I found a couple of good genealogy chatrooms plus the chatrooms at Geocities. Geocities also had a good variety of other chatrooms - help with your website,...
Pros: A community dedicated to alternative lifestyles Cons: Being in one community makes it easier to be spotted by anti-alternativelife folks
Geocities WestHollywood community in my opinion is one of the bests collection of gay, lesbian, bisexual or trans homepages. Here you find a wide variety of laternative lifestyles. One of the reasons I put my homepage here, is because I would be around...
I had a homestead on Geocities for almost a year, before the infamous merger. During the stand-off, my site was held hostage. Because I was unwilling to assign rights to another artist's graphics to Yahoo!Geocities in perpetuity, I was not allowed to...
Pros: Strong community, shorter URL, adequate space, helps for novices, domain registration, integrated with the Yahoo! Service Cons: If you demand space, this is not for you, ads, pros stay away from this one
Since 1996, I have been a Geocities member. It was a time long before they went public, before they began putting ads on member's pages, before they hooked up with Yahoo! Heck, I remember that they first gave you 2 Megs of space. Now, after all of...
Pros: Free and easy homepages Cons: Slow accessing
I joined the Geocities community my freshmen year of college. At the time there was only a few communities and I found my place in College Park. Geocities was growing strongly but now that Yahoo took over it seems to have exploded.
Pros: short url's,easy to use Cons: not much storage space,banner ad's
Geocities is a great place to start out with your html skills,and web making adventures.With Angelfire,another leading free homepage host becoming very popular,so quickly,i decided to give them a try.It turned out their service wasnt so good,and with...
Pros: easy to use, free, free, without cost, good service Cons: the dreaded ad square
You've heard the stories. "Geocities Sucks!" "I hate Geocities" and so on. People love to hate it, but they are overlooking the fact that it is 15 megabytes of webspace for FREE. That's right, kids, FREE. NO MONEY. It seems to be...
Pros: great interface, a lot of space (15MB) Cons: small advertising
I don't see how anyone can have complaints about geocities.com. Not only is it a free web page, with something like 15 MB's of space, but they make it easy and fun to make and maintain your page.
It's very important to have easy page maintenance....
Pros: no one likes yahoo! geocities anymore Cons: it's yahoo!
I used to love geocities. infact, as soon as I learned how to do basic HTML on angelfire, I switched to geocities due to their great services. When they emailed me telling me they were merging with yahoo!, I figured... "oh no!" because I hate...
Pros: Free - Easy to use - great support Cons: Absolutely None
Want to get your business online? Safeshopper.com is a great way to start. It's easy to get up and running and it's FREE. Everything you need to make a very good business site is provided. Of course they offer you plenty of advertising/promotion options...
Geocities is what you get for free when you have SBC Yahoo DSL which I've had for a while now. By the time my service contract with SBC was up I ended up keeping SBC not because they had a better website option but because they'd lowered their DSL price ...
I have been using Yahoo! Geocities for years now. I started out with a non-paying site, then upgraded to a paying site a couple of years later when my site gained popularity.
I went with Yahoo! Geocities Pro, which included no ads, 25mb of...
Yahoo is awful! Anyone who has anything to do with them had better read the Terms of Service very carefully before agreeing to join. Did you know that they have rights to use anything that you put on their services for whatever they wish? They also own...
This is a terrible service to sign up with even if you are just starting out with websites. When I first learned HTML, I made the mistake of signing up with them. Luckily I realized the truth- Geocities doesn't want it's members to have nice/cool...
I am a paying GeoCities Pro customer. When you pay for a service, you expect support. However, Geocities does not provide ANY customer service. My web page went fine. My e-mail never has worked right though. My "username@yahoo.com" account works fine,...
Pros: easy to use, fast, lots of resources Cons: limited amount of space, but more available for purchase if you need
I have had a homepage at Geocities for years. When I first started, I did the basic format, where you can just use thier template and create your page. After working on it, I began to learn HTML, so I could do more with the page. Even for the beginner...
I started out making my own homepage on geocities when it was just geocities a few years ago. Well, there's been so many changes of the last few years, I find them extremely difficult to navigate to get to where I need to be to update my page. ...
GeoCities can be thought of as a nail in Yahoo!'s coffin. Yahoo! bought this site from it's original developers for it's customers, but then never really did anything to keep it up.Free Home PagesThe idea was simple. Users ...
Pros: Ease of use, great way to learn web-page building Cons: Advertising required as an "ad-square" or a banner advertisement
Create a Top Ten Web Site
Six (6) months ago I knew nothing about the internet or web page building. Today, I have a GeoCities web site that has received over 5,000 visitors and is listed in the "Top Ten" ranking positions of the major...
Yahoo!Geocities is a great free webpage community. It has a variety of features that make your homepage stand out! With a network of other homepages, you can spend a lot of time checking other webpages for ideas and help with the html.
I signed up with Geocities back in 1997 when I was first learning how to build a web site for my favorite actor, George Clooney. I wanted something that was free and not associated with my ISP (because I was in the process of switching around trying to...
Pros: Free 15MB of WebSpace Cons: Long Urls, It's owned by Yahoo!, Ad banner
The Basic Stuff
Geocities will give you 15MB of webspace to post your page on. There is a few restrictions on what you can place on your site. However there is not many. They give you an address like www.geocities.com/yournamehere/. However...
Pros: 15 mega Bites space, Free, easy upload, good idea for searches Cons: Slow because of all the junk
Well it was about three years ago, I finally got the Internet, and being my curious self I decided to ask my computer genius mom how web-pages are made. She told me that there is some script that is called HTML. At first I was all, "That’s a pretty...
Many yahoo.com users say that www.geocities.com is the best place to make and manipulate your personal website. Perhaps they are right and geocities.com is one of the best free site servers and space providers. Geocities offers you many features and ...
Pros: free, somewhat easy Cons: often doesn't work
Maybe it's just me, but I always seem to have problems with yahoo geocities. At first it seemed like the easiest and most popular way to create a homepage, but it hasn't been extremely easy. The really cool features I wanted to add to my page I had to...
Pros: Free, Easy to Use, provides alot of options, and works Cons: Can't think of any!
I was looking for an easy way to make a website for myself. Since I am not very computer knowledgeable about the world wide web Geocities web service seemed to be perfect. My main reason I selected this webservice is because it was so easy to use....
Setting up the account seems very easy: your credit card is charged within seconds, and the process is promised to take 24-48 hours. THREE WEEKS after my credit card was charged, the "24-48 hour process" is still not complete. They don't have a published...
Pros: Good for newbies... Cons: Advertisements everywhere...
I can see how some people might like Geocities for publishing their websites; but these are the same people who use those stupid web banners thinking they are going to make a fortune one penny at a time. Geocities is trash, period. Any site that says...
Pros: Simple to learn and use Cons: Advanced uses not available
Geocities is the easiest web page designing service available on the internet today. Everything is made readily available to you, and the amoumt of html you need to learn is extremely minimal in order to set up a page using Geocities. Ease of Use...
I first had a web page at Angelfire.com and I loved it there. Then one day I couldn't access my page to upload my son's new pictures so I went to geocities and used there's just as a "quick fix". Well 6 months later, I'm still here at...
Pros: Starts off simple Cons: Gets annoying real fast!
Well there was definitely NO magic here! Can we say Annoying!
I'm new to making homepages and thought I'd try to make one with Yahoo!GeoCities. What a mistake. This is supposed to be the easy route to take for those homepage inclined like...
If you are looking for a good place to get free homepages, GeoCities is it. I have many other accounts with other free homepage companies, but they dont compare to GeoCities.
GeoCities has great features. You can browse other peoples web...
I was in search of a free homepage that I could get creative with, with minimal frustration. That's when I found GEOCITIES.COM. "Yes," I thought, "No pain, lots of gain."
First, I'll give you the reasons I really like Geocities Homepages:...
An interesting little proposition Geocities.com is. A fair slab of webspace and the tools you need to build a website. Sounds cool for nothing right?! Wrong. GeoCities as a free webspace provider is one of the worst about: the amount of adverts they...
Pros: Lots of space, ease of use, short URL, FTP upload Cons: Can't think of any
I've been using Geocities since December 1997 for my personal homepage.
In those 2+ years I've had very few problems. I create my pages off line with WordPerfect and them upload them onto the server. I have used the Advanced Editor to create...
Pros: Easy,free,sense of community Cons: loading files(pics, etc;) is slow if they are individual,
Ok first off there are people probably mad at Geocities for the pop-up banners.Get rid of those by inserting a Geoguide at the top of your pages.That is my only real big deal problem.I have no clue what HTML works nor how to use it, but I...
Pros: easy easy easy Cons: web site addresses can end up long
I realize I'm getting a little carried away, but I wanted you to get the point. This is my third and final review of yahoo services, but I could write many, many more if I put my mind to it.
I have used several free web page sites over the...
Pros: free, kinda idiotproof (if u have a PhD) Cons: making sense of what they tried to do, how things r set up
A long time ago, back when I didn't have much of a life to speak of, I signed up for geocities. This is way before they hit that "one million members" thing. It was quick, easy, and most importantly, FREE. Well, its still free, but for some...
Yahoo! Geocities has been so great and has made it easy and fun for my friends and I to express ourselves. I started surfing the net about a year ago and always wanted to have a Homepage of my own. Thanks to Yahoo!, I have made myself a great homepage. I...
Pros: Short URL, FTP capability, better track record than other freebie sites Cons: Stay AWAY from GeoPlus
This is a hard review to write because I want to recommend Geocities in some ways, and tell you to avoid them like the plague in others!
I started out on Geocities and even still house some sites there. Of the free sites out there, they seem to...
I have had several geocities pages and I can say that I have watched them grow. I used to have a site back when they offered an unheard of 1MB of space. The sites had long names that were called "neighborhoods." While I don't like their easy editor...
Pros: its all good Cons: they have problems some times but not much
this is the one for tyou not only doesa yahoo have not just chat and email you can get driving derections you can get maps you can check stocks you can do so much heck yahoo ebven has what is called a yahoo pager and what that is say you always chat...
Pros: many sites available, recognition Cons: hard to use, long addresses, to many people
I am a long time web builder, I was building websites when templates were not available and you either learned on your own or through a trusty handbook. Then along came these sites that "build" the website for you...NOT.
Pros: good tools, relatively fast service Cons: advertising contorts user pages, sometimes extremely difficult to navigate, poor customer service
Yahoo! Geocities provides a wonderful service, when it's actually accessible and working properly. I've had several problems, specifically entering the File Manager to modify my files. The ad square advertisements always conflict with my html code and...
Pros: live e-mail responses Cons: still no contact number '1-800-company'
Originally I wrote:
Previous to my experience (and coincidentally the Yahoo/Geocities merger) I had no problem with Geocities. It was my 1st experience with making webpages and quite frankly you couldn't beat the price. As the cliche goes 'you...
Talk about a strange combination! I was with Yahoo and Geocities before
their merger. And talk about having trouble with a homepage. Well right
after their merger I tried them again and to no avail, I just got even
more fustrated at them....
Pros: stay simple and its a fair site Cons: need html knowledge if you want more than simple page
When I first started using a computer, I came across Geocities and was thrilled with the idea of building my own home page...personally set up by me. At first, before I found all the other options, I thought it was supposed to be difficult because I had...
Pros: Easy, good amount of space Cons: pop ups, Advanced features of web design do not work well
Geocities it perhaps the most famous of the free homepage/storage services on the internet. Why? Because of its ease of use. Geocities is very very easy to use and you can have a webpage even if you can't play MP3s. It has lots of cool options and...
Pros: 15 megs of space, non-intrusive ads. Cons: Very little "community" feeling.
Yahoo! GeoCities has made several changes to its service recently that some users love, and other users hates. Starting with the acquisition of GeoCities by Yahoo!, their service has become less and less easy to use.
Pros: A good variety of graphics to choose from Cons: none........yet
I just started my homepage at Yahoo! Geocities and let me tell you, what a breeze!! It was so simple to use and I would recommend it to any beginner or internet whiz. I have tried a couple other free homepage services, and they didn't compare to...
Pros: Mostly Everything Cons: Not much space given
This is my homepage provider of choice. It gives you 15 megs which is about the minimum you get anywhere. The place where it shines however is the advertisement and the services. Instead of plastering a banner in each one of your frames it places a...
Pros: easy website builder Cons: not enough support
I have a little mini website at Geocities. http://www.geocities.com/psychic4u2
I am having great fun with it. In the beginning I was pretty confused. I just got my computer August 20 and I didn't even know what links were. Going into the...
Pros: File manager, new functions, stay logged on Cons: Advertising bar b/c of the 11 MB of space
I've been working with geocities long before the merge with Yahoo!, around 1995, and let me tell you, they're the best. The changes they've gone through since they began are phenomenal. Alot of people say that they don't like the new features such as...
Looking for a home for your web site? Look no further than Yahoo! GeoCities. The interface is great, whether you’re a beginner or an HTML expert. I started out with no HTML knowledge and built a workable site. My HTML knowledge has grown, but I still...
Pros: Free, easy, 15 Megabytes, don't need to know HTML or javascript Cons: can be slow, usually not
I have had a Geocities web page from before Yahoo! bought Geocities. And when Yahoo! bought it, I was rather apprehensive about what would happen to Geocities. And frankly, it couldn't have gotten much better. Yahoo! doesn't have those annoying popups...
Ever since Yahoo! joined up with Geocities, this free homepage builder has topped the charts. I personally love Geocities. I have had many years experience with them. Their html editor is easy to use and very easy to learn. For the more novice user,...
Pros: Doesn't cost anything to have them remove your site at will. Cons: Godzilla like maintenance, and no email address anywhere to be found
I've written a handful of web pages, but the two which were most important to me was a gaming site, another one (which I have currently) is a humor site. The humor site was msn.com's site of the day on 1-6-00 so I'm pretty proud of it, or at least I was...
Pros: Offers site building options for novices to more advanced Cons: Can't build 2 sites in same neighborhood & commerce restrictions
As far as building a personal home page, I still like Geocities the best. I am building sites on XOOM.com and homestead.com now too. I also tried to build a site on AOL, but I've given up on that. While Geocities does not have the nice click and drag...
Pros: Easy to use, free web space, fun. Cons: Long URLs, bad customer service.
Geocities is perfect for the beginning user. You don't have to know any HTML editing what-so-ever, and the PageBuilder really stands out.
When I just got my computer, I wanted to build my web page, but I had no clue about HTML. I found...
Pros: It is a way to express your self and its free Cons: I wish non profit could use it free
I have used Geocities for the free web page it is great. It also is very easy to learn. I do not have html skills yet so I took advantage of geosities free easy html builder it does it for you. Just point and click. I love it.
I have been with Yahoo Geocities for two years. It was a place where I called home for all me online work. I was a Geocities Plus member paying about $10 per month for premium services. I was a loyal customer and never thought of leaving....
Yahoo! Geocities has been so great and has made it easy and fun for my friends and I to express ourselves. I started surfing the net about a year ago and always wanted to have a Homepage of my own. Thanks to Yahoo!, I have made myself a great homepage. I...
Pros: Chats, Message Boards, Homepages, etc. Cons: Not AOL
Yahoo! Geocities has a little bit of everything. If you want to make a homepage but are kind of computer illiterate then this is the place to go. It offers chats and message boards about any topic under the sun and if you are looking for people who share...
Pros: Easier to upload Cons: Too many /'s and stuff to remember the address
I have a page off of Geocities/Yahoo and i can tell you its never been easier. Of course, I'm a bumbling idiot and can't figure things out for myself...so thats why I was on Angelfire.com before.
I tried a few times to start a Geocities...
Pros: Easy to use; great for beginners, Detailed site statistics, Reasonable load time Cons: Lack of custom CGI scripts, display ad causes problems with old browsers
Geocities is, and forever has been the ultimate free web space provider on the internet, and with good reason. The remarkable ease of use that appeals to beginners and computer illiterates draws in hundreds of people a day. From an easy-to-navigate...
Pros: Very easy to use, for beginners. Many tools to help build the site. Cons: A banner on the upper right corner.
Geocities is from Yahoo and if you have a Yahoo account, you are automatically entitled to a geocities account based on your Yahoo screen name. Geocities supports people who are just beginning a little web page and want to build a personal web page. I...
Pros: easy to upload photos Cons: can take a long time
I really like using geocities to host my web pages. I still consider myself a novice at making web pages. I work with the basics. Geocities makes sharing your photos very easy. You just upload them & send the link to whomever wants to see them....
I found yahoo geocities easy to use. Its drag and drop editor is quick and simple. I really like how you can add your own html code, if you choose, in the drag and drop editor. I also like how it has some "pre-made code," some examples would be...
Well, when i first started out i used geocities for my web site at first they had where you have to have that banner on top i did not mind it but now with this new pop up thing in the top right corner it makes this worse. there is a script error...
Pros: Easy to use, excellent instructions Cons: Server is sometimes too busy
I have used Geocities for quite a while now. It is by far the best web page builder out there! Geocities is very easy to use, whether you are just starting out with Page Builder or if you choose the advanced features of the HTML based File Manager. The...
When I first started on the internet Geocities was one of the first programs I ever tried, had my own site up, but ive always been annoyed by them throwing up banner ads and popup ads(like more recent times) on peoples sites.
Pros: Easy to upload photos and they are never deleted. Cons: I have not found any.
I have been an internet auction seller for a couple of years and have used most of the management systems and online photo storage options, and yahoo geocities is the best for me.
The first great point is the photos stay where you put them, they are...
Pros: more file transfer options than when it started Cons: tends to be unstable for other computers, sometimes to the point of crashing them
I used to have a wrestling fantasy league on Geocities, since my friend (who helped me undertake this project) owned an account there. I decided to go ahead and use the space, since it saved time from registering a new account. However, I didn't know...
I set up my website (8.95 american, 13.95 canadian) and I couldn't upload anything using FrontPage 2002. I tried emailing customer service... got no response at all. Tried using the message boards... the person who responded was way too technical and...
Pros: good uploading and lots of space Cons: the new pop up box has script errors
well when i first started out i used geocities for my web site at first they had where you have to have that banner on top i did not mind it but now with this new pop up thing in the top right corner it makes this worse. there is a script error somewhere...
Pros: 15MB Free, Free Email, Free Extras Cons: No CGI or PERL Scripts, There are Pop-Up Banners (But can be solved by placing a banner in your HTML)
6 years ago you had two options, pay for web space or go with Geocities. When I first joined them they game 6MB of free space. I have been a member for four years now and now I have 15MB. Geocities is a very good web hosting service just sign up and...
Pros: Free and works Cons: Ad pop-up is irritating
Nothing to advanced to report, just that my Apple web space was driving me up the wall, and so I logged on to Geocities and set up a webcam page in under 10 minutes. FTP works well, auto uploads are easy, navigation is a little meandering, ad pop-ups are...
I got geocities homepages and its good. It let have 20 files. It got basic and advanced program for just staters and already know people to build their own web pages. It got yahoo wizrd if you need help to build a web page. It can build personal,...
Ok, let me tell you what happened to me recently at Geocities. First of all, I got a SPAM from someone with a yahoo.com address. (What does this have to do with Geocities? You'll find out...). I reported the SPAM to abuse@yahoo.com. My email...
As long as you never have a problem, Geocities is great. Page Builder is easy to use and the pricing is fair. But, if you have a question not in the FAQs, watch out!! As far as I can tell, no one works in the CustomerCare department. I've sent at least...
Geocities... the list of puns could be drawn from the name itself, I'll leave that up to your imagination though. Geocities is okay, I mean it's free right? Yea' well in comparison to Angelfire/Tripod, I'll take the shorter URL and put up with the ...
Most of these epinions sound like people from Geocities wrote them. To shortly recap my experience with Geocities...for 10 days my email didn't work and I couldn't get a response from customer service. Then my account was cancelled without warning....
Yahoo Geocities, got to be one of the better free online hosting sites I have found, except for the 5mb upload minimum. I have built a page there, given it needs work, its easy to do.
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