"Important notice: GeoCities is closing.
Dear Yahoo! GeoCities customer,
We’re writing to let you know that Yahoo! GeoCities, our free web site building service and community, is closing on October 26, 2009."
Since I have a few fun sites I don’t want their next level upgrade of $60/year.
I tried Lycon/Angelfire where I used to have a site but now it seems to have three top banner ads and a whole stupid side window with multiple scroll bars. What a mess.
Sorry for your loss, but good riddance to Geocities, IMHO.
If you’re just looking to put web a simple noncommercial site with information (no custom scripts, cgi, etc.) - there’s Google Sites, I guess. I haven’t tried it but I know it exists and Google is pretty reliable.
But if these aren’t commercial sites you’re talking about - maybe it’s time to start thinking of going in another direction? Web 2.0? The blogging sites (e.g. Wordpress) or the social networking sites? Their existence is the major reason Geocities is dead, and there’s a reason.
Thank. While waiting for a response I looked around and found http://webstarts.com. They seem to be more what I want in the long run, because they let me write the entire html.
But Google sites got me a good substitute site within minutes. I hated their interface, nothing seemed intuitive, but as a programmer I just kept trying unintuitive choices until I found what I needed. So I’m completely off of Yahoo. If they wanted me to upgrade to $60 per site they have failed. Although I have no illusions about Google. Won’t be long before my Google site is full of extraneous dancing baby ads for scam products, and I’ll be shifting everything to webstarts, or some other site too weak to push me around.
FWIW as someone who started publishing pages on CompuServe’s and AOL’s web hosting (both now defunct) in the mid-1990s my advice would be, whatever you do, only publish sites under a domain that you own and control yourself. (That also goes for e-mail addresses - I had three early e-mail addresses of mine made defunct by e-mail providers who decided, respectively, to go out of business, to unilaterally change their customers’ e-mail addresses to another domain of theirs (without forwarding from the old address that their customers of course had propagated on business cards), and to discontinue offering e-mail accounts).
Otherwise the stability of your pages’ address is always subject to the whim of pointy-haired bosses at the company that hosts the pages.