I again want to thank all my computer geeky friends for their wonderful suggestions last week when I originally asked this question. Lots of good web sites and info came forth, which I am still studying.
In the meantime, I am happy, no, make that sooooo relieved you cannot believe, to announce that yesterday Al and I were able to gain access to the geocities page builder, and successfully edit pages.
Now, you might remember my whining (yep, that was what I was doing, whining) that it just had to be some setting. And it was.
Yesterday morning, I started having trouble with web pages loading, again from yahoo (geocities). I was really fit to be tied and angry, well, that does not describe it.
Anyway, Al fussed around and finally just reset IE back to OEM settings. That fixed the multi page load, and of course, I had to redo a bucket load of preferences and passwords. By then, I was happy to do so!!
So, we give geocities pagebuilder a shot, and before me flashes, a quick and fading message, something about a managed add on, blah blah blah blah.
Later, while I am snooping around in IE settings, I find a area for Managed Add Ons, open it, and what is sitting there, well a few things, but, TA DA, HUGE DRUM ROLL!!!! There is JAVA!!! Turned OFF!!
Now, ya gotta have Java and it has to be turned on. There are help screens at geocities telling you this, and how to turn it on. I followed the directions to the "T". BUT, NOWHERE DOES IT SAY CHECK MANAGED ADD ONS!!
Do you think yahoo/geocites is gonna hear from me?? DUHHHHH
Clicked on Java, and geocities loads right up, page builder works, I am in and working.
There are two places you have to have Java turned on, one is in Internet tools, Advanced button. The other is this Managed Add Ons. If they are not both on, Java no worka!!
Now, I have time to search around and see what I want to do about moving to my own domain, another server for the web pages, etc etc etc. For the moment, anyway, the panic searching can cease and I can approach this all calmly.
Well, as calmly as I ever get!
Again, thanks all, it was a frustrating experience, but, as usual, from frustration comes learning. If you let it happen.
Cheers and happy computing!!
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