How do I put images on my page?
Putting your own pictures on your page is not difficult, but involves a number of steps.
Photos
If you have your own photos which you would like to add to your page, you first need to have them scanned. When they are scanned, make sure you save them as either .jpg or .gif file types. Any other format will not be allowed on your web page. In general, .jpg files are MUCH smaller than .gif files when working with photos, but feel free to experiment with the file types. Please be careful of the size of the image files. Ideally, all your files should be kept well under 500 K in size or they will take ages to load on people's computers.
Graphics
When you are traveling through the web looking for that awesome image to include on your homepage, there are a couple of things that you need to keep in mind. First of all, remember that the creators of images have the legal rights to those pictures. Unless they give you permission to use their artwork, you legally do not have the right to use it. Does this mean that they will ever catch your theft or care about it if they do? Maybe not, but what you are doing is still illegal. There are many many many sites out there with free graphics for you to use legally. Also, remember that any images you add to your site will slow down the amount of time it takes for your page to load. Too many images will slow down your page, make it less attractive, and detract from the real content (assuming you have any). In the beginning stages of a web page it is easy to throw on a bunch of cool pictures that you find out there in cyberspace (I know I put a bunch on my page!), but they really do detract from the quality of your page.
Keeping those warnings in mind, here is the procedure for saving those cool graphics. If you are on a PC, you need to click on the right-most mouse button. Doing this will produce a menu with the option of saving the image. Just click on the save option and save it to either your hard drive or your floppy disk. For Macs, I believe you just click on the image with your mouse and follow the same steps as PC users (Macs and I hate each other, so I don't know for sure).
Uploading your images
After the pictures are saved on your computer or a disk, you will need to get them to GeoCities. This is called "uploading" because a copy is being transported from your computer and up onto the web. There are two basic ways to do this at GeoCities. The first is to use the EZ Upload utility in the File Manager. This is provided by GeoCities and lets you browse your disk or hard drive to look for the file. If you cannot use EZ Upload, choose not to use it, or are uploading files of more than 500K in size, you will need to use an FTP program. Many computers now come with an FTP program installed. For programs and instructions on FTPing to GeoCities, visit seniorchamp's FTP help guide.
Seniorchamp has TONS of other help available, so visit his site if there is something you need help with that is not covered here!
Installing the image
Ok...after you get the picture to your account on GeoCities, you still need to get it on your page. It doesn't just magically appear there. These instructions are for installing it using the Advanced Editor option in the File Manager. GeoBuilder is easy enough to figure out that I don't really need to include instructions for adding the picture in it. Ok...in File Manager, you will need to click on the box next to the file in which you want the picture to appear. An "x" will appear in the box. Then you need to scroll down and make sure you have "advanced editor" chosen as your editor. Then click on the button called "edit". This will take you to the HTML editing screen. Simply locate the part of the document where you would like to insert the picture. At that spot, you will need to add some HTML code to make your picture show up. For a generic photo called picofme.jpg the code would be as follows:
<![CDATA[<IMG SRC="picofme.jpg">]]>
Make sure you use the exact file names found in the File Manager for your pictures. picofme.jpg is different from Picofme.jpg is different from PICOFME.jpg is different from Picofm.jpg etc. Any small error in this coding will result in a broken image (meaning an ugly little image will appear in place of your lovely picture). After inserting the proper code, just save the changes and go look at your page. If the changes do not show up at first, try refreshing/reloading the page because your browser may be looking at its old copy of the page rather than the new version.
Follow those steps and you can put any .jpg or .gif picture on your homepage!