How to manage your Tripod home page

1. Go to www.tripod.com.
2. Click on Sign Up.
3. Choose your member name and password as prompted. Use any combination of letters, numbers, or underscores in your name and password. Both should be at least characters in length. Your member name will determine the address (URL) of your website. For instance, the member name for the class website is fps70 and the address of the site is fps70.tripod.com. Try to avoid using capitals in your address, as URLs are case sensitive.
4. Fill out your personal information and choose any offers you wish to partake in (you do not need to choose any). Be sure to type your email address (your hotmail address can be used here) correctly when asked. Also, you can change this information at any time after you sign up.
5. Enter the six digit number in the box under Enter Confirmation Code.
6. When you have completed the form, click Sign Me Up at the bottom. If you have completed the form correctly and your address is accepted by Tripod, you will find yourself at a page that says congratulations. If you missed a required line or your name has already been taken, you will have to keep resubmitting the form.
7. You will be sent an email that welcomes you to Tripod. This will contain your member name and password. Be sure to remember your member name and password, as you will need them to log into your account.
8. To start building your page, click Go to Tripod. This is the page you will typically see every time you log into your Tripod page.
9. To begin making a new HTML page, click FreeForm to use the text editor and save directly to your site. To upload existing HTML or image files, click File Manager. There are also many other resources available for enhancing your homepage once it is created.
10. In the File Manager, you can see how much space you have used, as well as edit or upload. To upload files, click on the arrow next to Upload via to choose how you will be uploading. Choose Single files (8).
11. Browse for each file you wish to upload. Click A: Drive if your files are located on a disk. Follow these steps until you have included every page, picture and file that you are uploading. Make sure you also include all the .gif files needed for your page. You can rename the file here, as well as overwrite a file of the same name already on your site, or change the file name to all lowercase. For your main page, if it is not already named so, rename it "index.htm". This will ensure that your site can be accessed by the URL yourname.tripod.com.
12. Click upload when you have chosen your files. It make take a moment to upload, then you will see a list of the files that successfully uploaded. If you are finished uploading now, click Close to return to the file manager. Otherwise, click Back to Upload to upload more files.
13. Your uploaded files should be listed. You can ignore the cgi-bin directory all together. If you wish to change a file, check its checkbox and click Edit.
14. If you create pages online and want to save backups of them to a disk, in File Manager, right-click the name of the file you wish to save and choose Save Target As. Save the file under the title you want in the folder you want and make sure the file type is listed as an HTML document. If not, be sure to type .html after the file title.
15. You can now log out of Tripod and check to see if your pages are on the internet.