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solutions - yahoo! geocities

summary:
URL: yahoo.geocities.com
Space: 11 Mb
What the Solution does: Totally eliminates the pop-up
Description: In an attempt to make the 'illegal' method harder, Yahoo! GeoCities recently updated their code. But, there's tons of pop-up haters, and only a small team of crack (smoking) scientists at Yahoo! GeoCities, and we'll always beat them!

the legal solution:

The legal method is to place a GeoGuide on your web site. To make the best of it, it's best done by using the following code:

Thanks to Kendall Dawson for this step-by-step guide

1.Create your web pages like you normally would.

2.When you are happy with your pages, go to the File Manager and click
the link that says 'GeoGuide' (on the right hand side under Quick Links).

3.Once you get to the 'GeoGuide Mangager' you have to select the
functions you would like. (email, forum, tour, etc...) I personally leave
everything set to "NO" and click on "Next" at the bottom.

4.Next, you are asked to select your colors and banner ratings. If you feel
like changing these, go ahead, otherwise- click on "Set Up My
GeoGuide" at the bottom of the page.

5.Now, you are required to put this line of code into your web page to make a GeoGuide: "". Me personally- I put like 50 tags in front of the code for my GeoGuide - That's what we've got here, too!

6.You can move yours to the bottom of the page by doing something like
this: First, find the bottom of your web page. Then, just before the closing
</BODY> tag in your file, add this-


 
 
 
 
<center>This lamer is trying to sell you crap: 

 Don't buy it! It's not worth the time or money!</center>
</body>
</html>

7.Important: After you have put the code on your page you will need to
activate your GeoGuide by returning to the GeoGuide Manager! Just
click the button that says 'GeoGuide Manager' at the bottom of the page.

8.Now, from the 'GeoGuide Manager' click the button that says: 'Activate
My GeoGuide(s)'. Don't worry about that 'top of the page' crap. They will
tell you about 50 times that your code has to be at the TOP of the page.
But, guess what? It works at the bottom too! They just don't want you to
know this.

9.Be sure to do a [Shift]-Reload (hold down the Shift Key while clicking on Reload or Refresh) to see the changes on your homepage!.

10.Everyone is happy! Geocities gets their GeoGuide on every one of your pages. You get a FREE homepage. And, your viewers don't have to deal with those STUPID pop up windows!

the illegal solution:

Thanks to Rob (www.robskate.com) for this solution to the new, evil Geocities Ad Square. It uses the code that GeoCities use to kill of their ad square when people click "X" to kill the ad. Just insert this script anywhere in your site.

The other way is to install a hidden GeoGuide! This can be done by adding this line anywhere in your web site: