Front Page and Geocities

[Mary]

I have a free Yahoo Geocities web page. Brand new Front Page user. I can't
manually upload my page to Geocities (not willing to pay to use their FTP
option!)-I get an error message saying "invalid file." My file name meets all
of their guidelines. Is this a problem with Geocities not being compatible
with FrontPage 2003? I see that they do support 2002. What am I doing wrong??

 

[Mary]

They have what they call "Easy Upload" which will manually upload a file to
their server once you choose it from your hard drive. Mine is just a plain
old vanilla html file...it's worked a million times from my other HTML
program. The only info I can get about the error from Yahoo's help is that it
doesn't fit their guidelines. I've retyped it in hopes there was an invisible
undesirable character, I've even renamed the file but to no avail. I've
emailed them for help, but I'm not expecting anything very helpful from them
based on other experiences!

 

[Mary]

I have been able to upload a full web page successfully many times-you do
have to upload you pics separately, but that's not been a problem. Are you
using FP 2003 too? Did you try using their "Easy Upload" for an FP page? It's

 

[Mary]

Ah ha! I figured it out...you need to save the file in FP as html, not html
and tell geocities to convert it to html. Somewhat backwards and a little
labor intensive, but it works...when it's free, I guess you just have to
figure their system out. Here's the address to my page-I completely uploaded
it, pics and all from FP a few minutes ago. Feel free to check out the code
too if you're curious about how to make sure the pics and images show up!
http://www.geocities.com/muggins9898/index.html

I really appreciate the effort you just put in to help me. It's more than
I've gotten anywhere else. BTW-I was using Coffee Cup HTML Editor 2005 and
have completely given up on it. Wayyy too many bugs and poor customer service
for non-"codies." I wouldn't know a text tag if it whopped me in the kisser.
They advertised themselves as friendly for people who can't write code-but
this 2005 version has so many bugs people are reverting to the previous
version which doesn't have drag and drop in a visual editor. So I appreciate
all that you did! =)

Mary

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

Mary,

All of your images point back to your local HD, only you can see the images.

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[Mary]

Awww crrrap! Looks like I know what I'll be doing today! =( Thanks for
letting me know...I thought I had the code pointed to my geocities file
manager where I have uploaded those images!