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QUOTE(MaineFishing45 @ Feb 22 2006, 09:00 PM) Horrible.... one word fits all....lol I had some bad experiences with geocities. Back in the win98 days GeoCities was pretty good and useful fot personal web sites. The GeoCities add panel is something that degrades the users site. I used to like the communities and the ability to browse subjects for other users pages. Now a warning about reg... read more.
There are a few good points to Geocities webhosting: It is free There is no spyware/adware as far as I know They give you a site builder You are signed up if you have a Yahoo account
This is what I don't like about Geocities: The ads are annoying The sites you create in site builder are very unprofessional You don't get much space You don't get much bandwidth
What do you like about Geocities? What didn't you like about Geocities? Did you have a different experience? If so I would like to hear it.
I hate the name, it's so cheap I've never been hosted with them, they look shabby and the websites that ARE hosted by geocities are mostly shabby. I lke any other free host most than this is.. It just looks wrong.
The adverts there annoy me the most because they appear in everypage.. I mean what if you want IFRAMES... you can't exactly do anything. PLUS all the good names are probably taken because soo many people are hosted with them.
well back in the days before most of you all where able to pick up a computer, geocities was a pretty sweet set up, but after awhile people websites started closing down, people complaining about the service, and then the ads.
Of course, common sense all tells us that no member here would ever degrade to Geocities after being hosted here. Don't you agree?
This is true but the way I see it if you have friends who hate forum posting even though it takes almost no time out of your day and its actually an enjoyable part of your day that maby seeing information about another host might help you find your friend hosting.
Probably every webmasters who had managed to come here know about webhosting specially one like Geocities as much as you know.
But let's hope it is still useful since others don't bother to write about what most of us have known it in reality. I think you can include freeservers with geocities. The good point of freeservers is that it is very search engine friendly.. which geocities will not match... though annoying pop-ups and endless ads add upto the hate list.
I was on Geocities before the ads became annoying. It actually wasn't that bad, but I agree - most sites on geocities are horrible. They're great for beginners but past that, eh...you'll need a new host.
I used Geocities for the first site I ever built without a page builder or Frontpage. I would still be using Geocities if they hadn't gone and made a ad that blocks 1/4th of your site.
I never ran out of space for files, but my bandwidth was drained up quickly. I would always upload stuff onto my site for future referrences, and when I went to go and get the files again... I wouldn't be able to access my site and I'd have to try get into File Manager.
I agree that it is great for beginners, especially since most of them don't really care about the ads or have to worry about bandwidth. Most Geocties sites don't have a lot of visiters coming to the site unless it's been forgotten and really old.
Horrible.... one word fits all....lol I had some bad experiences with geocities.
Back in the win98 days GeoCities was pretty good and useful fot personal web sites. The GeoCities add panel is something that degrades the users site. I used to like the communities and the ability to browse subjects for other users pages.
Now a warning about registering with GeoCities.
Do not use your main email address to register for a site for Geocities and I would recommend using a disposable email address. About a year ago I played around with a Geocities website and found out that when you register your email with them that it is available for spammers web spiders that lift your email address from the registry. The end result was that the email address I registered with the Geocities web site recieved up to 1,000 spam mails a day. It got to the point where I had to delete that email address.
Geocities affectionately has a name amongst discussions I've had with people. Let's just say without vulgarity, I cannot say it, but it rhymes with Geocities and involves an SH.
now for my opnion (which agrees with everyone lol)
bassicly, its good for beginners who know nothign about HTMl and stuff, and can be editted by any computer with access to the internet.
but, the bandwidth is a stupid amount, and for a website with an average amout of graphics it dies after 10 unique page views lol The adds are ennoying, but at least there not popups. . .
I first used this to get my graphics on the net to form a "website", but after the bandwidth limtied what i could do i moved onto trap17.
its simple and useful for begginers who don't wnat to create sites with large file sizes.
i think everyone seems to agree that geocities should only be used by complete beginners, I used it myself many years ago before it was all amalgamated with yahoo (i think my old url was something like geocities/Area51/411/ who remembers those days) I also used angelfire back around the same time and found their services more to my liking so i stopped using geocities and never intend to return, now i've found trap17 and now i don't need any of these anymore
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(which agrees with everyone lol)
