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Re: geocities web site
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lugnet.publish
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Tue, 27 Jul 1999 19:00:50 GMT
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In lugnet.publish, Eric Kingsley writes:
> In lugnet.publish, Blake Christopher Gettig writes:
> > I'm considering a free web site from geocities. Is there anything I should
> > know about those or any hidden gimmicks.
> > Thanks,
> > Blake
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> Blake,
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> I currently have a site at Yahoo! Geocities and I don't have much of a gripe
> with them although I think there are quite a few people that are unhappy with
> them and have been moving there sites.
I am one of those people who is currently in the process of moving their site.
I don't mind the merge, I'm just tired of all of the redirects and flubbed
up links. It's gotten so bad that I almost can't navigate my own site.
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> I personally like the service and have no plans on moving. One catch is that
> if you don't put their "GeoGuide" on your page or sign up for "GeoPlus" at
> $4.95 per month you get "POP-UP" adds when people go to your site. I
> personally find these extremely annoying and often will leave a site
> immediately if I get a "POP-UP". I therefore would suggest at least putting
> the "GeoGuide" on your page to stop the POP-UPs even though this puts some
> unwanted advertising on your page.
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> I also signed up for "GeoPlus" and it has some nice features. I havn't gotten
> around to removing all of the "GeoGuide" adds from all my pages yet however.
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> Hope that helps,
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> Eric
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> http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Shuttle/4598/
There are several other free hosting areas, Tripod and FortuneCity being
just a couple of others.
Duane
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| Duane Hess wrote in message ... (...) I have been using Tripod for a while and while I dislike the Tripod popup, I added the "onLoad=focus()" syntax to the <BODY> tag of all my documents. This at least pops the popup to the background somewhere. On (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jul-99, to lugnet.publish)
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| (...) Blake, I currently have a site at Yahoo! Geocities and I don't have much of a gripe with them although I think there are quite a few people that are unhappy with them and have been moving there sites. I personally like the service and have no (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jul-99, to lugnet.publish)
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