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Ombudsman Watch
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SETTING UP A GEOCITIES CAMPAIGN WEBSITE
You may wish to set up a website publicising your own
experience of injustice; or you may have a vision for a
campaign against the LGO that is different from that of
LGOWatch, and want to set up your own site. If so ...
1 Go to http://geocities.yahoo.com
2 Click on sign up under where it advertises 'free web hosting.'
3 Register with Yahoo! for your user name and password, (but read point 5 below
before doing so).
4 Follow the instructions
5 Your Yahoo ID will appear in the URL (domain name) of your web site, so if you
want your URL to be, say, www.geocities.com/councilsleeze, then the Yahoo ID you
choose should be councilsleeze.
6 Choose and enter a password.
7 Fill out the rest of the page, and follow the instructions.
8 With the free web site, you will be have a new web-based Yahoo e-mail address.
9 There is a Pagebuilder Tutorial to guide you in building your website.
10 It is very much a case of trial and error, but it can be quite absorbing once you
get started.
11 You can start off with a free site, which will display some advertising. It is
possible to convert your website to a pay site later on - see
http://geocities.yahoo.com
12 The cheapest pay site, at $5 per month, just removes advertising, but for $12
per month you can buy a web hosting package, including a domain name of your
choice (so long as it has not been claimed already). So
www.geocities.com/councilsleeze can become the much more memorable
www.councilsleeze.org. With the web hosting package you can also use Yahoo
Sitebuilder to construct your pages, which is a significant improvement on
Pagebuilder.
13 If you would like to direct traffic towards your website, you can set up a Google
Ad. With Google AdWords you create your own advertisements, and choose
keywords that will trigger your ads when people put them in search engines (e.g.
'Sleezebury Council'). It costs £5 to set up an account, you pay only when someone
clicks on your ad (which sends them directly to your website,) you can set a
maximum cost per click, starting at 4p, and you set a maximum cost per day. If
your maximum cost per day is, say, 40p, your ad will stop showing once ten people
have clicked on it, (though the limit tends to work on an average basis - all will be
revealed in the AdWords instructions).
14 Once your campaign gets going, you might like to set up a Yahoo! Group, where
your supporters can post messages. Click here for further information.
You may wish to set up a website publicising your own
experience of injustice; or you may have a vision for a
campaign against the LGO that is different from that of
LGOWatch, and want to set up your own site. If so ...
1 Go to http://geocities.yahoo.com
2 Click on sign up under where it advertises 'free web hosting.'
3 Register with Yahoo! for your user name and password, (but read point 5 below
before doing so).
4 Follow the instructions
5 Your Yahoo ID will appear in the URL (domain name) of your web site, so if you
want your URL to be, say, www.geocities.com/councilsleeze, then the Yahoo ID you
choose should be councilsleeze.
6 Choose and enter a password.
7 Fill out the rest of the page, and follow the instructions.
8 With the free web site, you will be have a new web-based Yahoo e-mail address.
9 There is a Pagebuilder Tutorial to guide you in building your website.
10 It is very much a case of trial and error, but it can be quite absorbing once you
get started.
11 You can start off with a free site, which will display some advertising. It is
possible to convert your website to a pay site later on - see
http://geocities.yahoo.com
12 The cheapest pay site, at $5 per month, just removes advertising, but for $12
per month you can buy a web hosting package, including a domain name of your
choice (so long as it has not been claimed already). So
www.geocities.com/councilsleeze can become the much more memorable
www.councilsleeze.org. With the web hosting package you can also use Yahoo
Sitebuilder to construct your pages, which is a significant improvement on
Pagebuilder.
13 If you would like to direct traffic towards your website, you can set up a Google
Ad. With Google AdWords you create your own advertisements, and choose
keywords that will trigger your ads when people put them in search engines (e.g.
'Sleezebury Council'). It costs £5 to set up an account, you pay only when someone
clicks on your ad (which sends them directly to your website,) you can set a
maximum cost per click, starting at 4p, and you set a maximum cost per day. If
your maximum cost per day is, say, 40p, your ad will stop showing once ten people
have clicked on it, (though the limit tends to work on an average basis - all will be
revealed in the AdWords instructions).
14 Once your campaign gets going, you might like to set up a Yahoo! Group, where
your supporters can post messages. Click here for further information.