Preparing For Your Web Site

Welcome to Poet's Web Design Class 101.  This class is designed to guide people who have very little to no HTML knowledge into creating a simple basic site.  These sites will be withing GeoCities Guidelines and will include instructions on how to use GeoCities services.  Please review GeoCities Guidelines to make sure you comply with them.

If you do not have a homestead (site) within Geocities, I suggest you join a homestead and proceed with the lessons.   By clicking join above, this will guide you easily through the steps to your new GeoCities Homestead.

You ask why you should have a GeoCities Homestead?  The answer is very simple, GeoCities is the best place on the internet to set up your personal web site. Homesteaders will recieve 11 megabytes of space, subdirectories to help you organize your files, a full set of tools, technical support and it's all FREE!!

11 Megabytes is not enough for you?  We do have a solution for you. GeoCities offers a Membership Account called GeoPlus.  This will give you more storage space (25 megabytes), a personal URL and much more. The monthly fee is $4.95 but very cost efficent.

What about Commercial Sites?  GeoCities also has a solution for Commercial Sites. GeoCities offers GeoShops. GeoShops brings you all the tools you need to create your own online store including real-time transaction processing. This member ship is $24.95 but will save you the time on most of your business transactions.

If you are still unsure about GeoCities and want to know more about GeoCities, Feel free to take a Tour of GeoCities to find out what they have to offer.

By now you should have your new Homestead and ready to get started building your new homestead.  There are 8 lessons all together. If you would like to browse a listing of each lesson and what they contain, please take a look at the Lesson Index.

This class is offered in mind that you know how to use the basic functions of a computer such as copy, paste, edit text, and most of all common knowledge.  Shall you have any problems with these areas, I suggest consulting your operating system's manual.

With that said, lets begin our journey to our new web site with Lesson 1.