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Jimdo's Lifeboat for GeoCities

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As the news that GeoCities made the rounds today, with stories on TechCrunch, Mashable, VentureBeat, ReadWriteWeb, and CNet, and as well a veritable tsunami of tweets, we here at Jimdo have been trying to figure out how to help rescue the people whose sites have been on GeoCities and are soon to be jettisoned.

 

We decided we're going to work on a way to help GeoCities users move their sites over to Jimdo -- free accounts of course, and a discount for JimdoPro if they want to do that. We're calling it...

The Jimdo Lifeboat

cc-sa-by http://www.flickr.com/photos/mjphoto/203761236/ cc-sa-by http://www.flickr.com/photos/mjphoto/203761236/

 

If you know of any friends or family who are affected by GeoCities shutting down, just point them over to the Jimdo Lifeboat (http://www.jimdo.com/geocities) and we'll help get everything straightened out.

 

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13 Comments

  • #1

    pee (Saturday, 25 April 2009 03:19)

    hey

  • #2

    niks-17 (Wednesday, 29 April 2009 11:48)

    :)

  • #3

    Pablo (Monday, 11 May 2009 12:25)

    (tsk tsk, broken link to jimdo.com/geocities under the picture, it goes to http://http/jimdo..)

  • JimdoPro
    #4

    Powen (Monday, 11 May 2009 18:28)

    Pablo, thanks for pointing it out. Fixed now!

  • #5

    Munadil Shafat (Thursday, 14 May 2009 13:22)

    I have tried to transfer my geocities free to jimbo free but their(jimbo) application to transfer it is not working ...it say Please insert a valid Geocities URL.

    Need proper solution

  • JimdoPro
    #6

    Powen (Thursday, 14 May 2009 20:10)

    Munadil, I think it's because of the period in your url. I'll see if our developers have a fix.

  • #7

    berg (Tuesday, 26 May 2009 08:42)

    I am getting the same thing - "please insert a valid Geocities URL."

  • JimdoPro
    #8

    Powen (Tuesday, 26 May 2009 16:57)

    Berg, what URL are you entering?

  • #9

    croad (Friday, 26 June 2009 15:40)

    I don't know whether it works with Geocities, but to transfer my freewebs website (as they will soon no longer support Internet Explorer 6 and I can only use public computers), I am just going to my website address (WITHOUT logging in) and copying and pasting everything - it doesn't work that well (especially on certain library computers), but a few minor edits to make it look smooth are a lot better than recreating the whole thing from scratch. Depending on what scripts a person has (or doesn't have) on their old website, it may be possible to simply copy the source then edit it as required.

  • #10

    Mike (Friday, 18 September 2009 16:23)

    This is not working for me either. Says "Please insert a valid Geocities URL"

  • #11

    Magic Russki (Wednesday, 07 October 2009 14:03)

    The way my site got transfered is completely random, there's no making head or tail of it now. Wouldn't it be easier just to copy and re-host THE FILES AS THEY ARE, maybe adding some Jimdo logos here and there?

  • JimdoPro
    #12

    Powen (Monday, 12 October 2009 17:56)

    Magic, it was actually, from what I understand, rather complicated for our developers since they needed to make sure the resulting page was editable using Jimdo's system/interface. I'm sorry it didn't work out the way you expected it to.

  • #13

    nospam2k1 (Monday, 26 October 2009 10:43)

    A usability problem is that the clicking the View link while editing a page will wipe out all the edits. Please make the View act as a preview, or, do stop the server from forgetting the user session data.

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