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How to Set Up an Email Account
Having your own email account is an incredibly valuable tool in today’s world. It is a fun, convenient way to communicate with family members and friends. Important information, newsletters, jokes, and directions can be shared immediately. It is also essential to functioning in today’s working world. Work related news is often shared through emailing, and it is almost impossible to utilize the online job seeking opportunities available without an email address. Many websites will not even allow you to enter without providing a valid email address.
When it comes to deciding on a provider for your email service, you have several thousand providers to choose from. There are countless companies out there offering email service, and more companies are developing new email services even as you read this. Therefore, before you decide what website you would like to get your email address from, there are a few matters you must consider: how much disk space would you like to have at your disposal (“disk space” refers to the amount of information you will be able to save in your account); what do you want the layout of the mail account to look like; and would you prefer a free account rather than one you must pay for. In order to determine which you would prefer, it will be necessary to use a search engine, run a search for “email provider,” and select a service that fits your requirements. Clearly, it would be a very daunting task to offer a guide to setting up an account with each and every one of these service providers- it would take several thousands of pages to provide such a guide. Due to this reason, I will only be providing information on how to create an email account with yahoo mail, which in my experience has proven to be the most popular email provide. It will be possible to take the following steps and simply apply the necessary adjustments for it to function properly for a different email provider. First, I will give a detailed set of instructions for how to set up a yahoo mail account, and will then follow it up with a less detailed, quick-step process for how to set up an internet account for people more familiar with using the internet.
Open your internet service. If you need assistance with this step, please refer to the set of instructions offered in “A Guide to Opening the Internet.” If you would like to have a copy of that guide, please come to the front desk at the Melvindale Public Library and ask for a copy.
If your homepage is www.yahoo.com skip this step. Otherwise, you must left click once inside the address bar, and then delete the text that is inside it. If you are not sure as to where the address bar is located look to the top of the next page; there is a picture of a typical web page, with the address bar indicated by the white arrow. Remember, you are able to left-click ANYWHERE in the address bar in order to delete out the current web address and type in a new web address. You can left-click anywhere on the text itself, anywhere on the white area to the right of the text, and so on. A tip that may help you to remember where the address bar is located in the future is to take note of the fact that directly to the left of the bar there is the word “Address.” If you are ever confused as to where the address bar is, just look for the white bar with the word “Address” to the left of it.
Once you have left-clicked inside the address bar, take note of where the blinking I-beam is at. The blinking I-beam is actually a blinking, straight line that will appear wherever you click within the text, and you are able to make actions wherever that bar may be. If the blinking I-beam is to the right of the text, you can delete what is there by pressing the backspace key. If it is located to the left of the text, you can delete what is there by pressing the delete key. Both keys are indicated by the white arrows in the image of a keyboard at the top of the next page. Remember that each time you click on either “Backspace” or “Delete” it will only delete the text one letter at a time. It may be necessary to press whichever key you are working with several times in order to successfully delete all of the original text within the address bar.
Now type in www.yahoo.com into the address bar.
Once you have typed in www.yahoo.com, you can let the program know that you want to proceed on to the webpage itself by doing one of two different things. It makes no difference which way you choose to proceed- they have the exact same result. You can either move the mouse over to the right hand side of the address bar and left-click “Go,” or you can press the “Enter” key on your keyboard. Again, it does not matter which of these two options you choose to go with. If you choose to left-click “Go” or press “Enter,” each will let the computer know to load www.yahoo.com equally effectively. For simplicity’s sake, it may be easier to remember the procedure if you decide which way you prefer to do it, and make it a habit of doing so in the future.
Allow www.yahoo.com to completely load onto the screen. Once it is completed, there are a few different ways to proceed into the actual yahoo mail screen. The first location of a link to yahoo mail is the picture of an envelope directly next to the word “Yahoo” at the top of the page. If you look at the picture below, the graphic I am talking about is indicated by the white arrow:
Now all you must do to proceed into yahoo mail using this link is left click once on the picture of the envelope. Another way to load yahoo mail is to left-click once on the word “Mail” in the list of Yahoo Services. The white arrow in the picture below indicates the location of the word “Mail.” Sometimes, the layout of the yahoo webpage is updated, thereby altering where the Yahoo Services list may be located on the page. In such a situation, all you must do is scan your eyes over www.yahoo.com until you see the list in its new location.
Now, once you have selected a link to left-click on to load the yahoo mail page, allow the page to fully load.
To create an email account for yourself, you must left-click once on the button that says “Sign up for Yahoo!” The white arrow in the picture at the top of the next page indicates the typical location for this button. As with the main page of yahoo, at times the appearance of this page may be altered from the state you are familiar with. Occasionally the people that maintain the webpage will update it and change the layout of this screen. In this situation, what you must do is scan across the webpage, keep your eyes peeled for the button that says “Sign up for Yahoo,” left-click on it once, and the sign-up page will load. If you do not see a button that says “Sign up for Yahoo” instead look for the words “Sign up” in blue and left click on those words.
Now, the screen will show you a list of information that needs to be filled out. There are several types of information that needs to be provided such as “First name,” “Last name,” etc. To fill out this information, you must left click once inside each box. By this, I am referring to the small white boxes to the right of each of the categories. Look at the picture below for more clarification of the location of these boxes to be filled out. The white arrow points out the first box:
Progress down through the page filling out the required information. Remember that in order to be able to type within any of the boxes; you must first left-click once inside the box so that the blinking I-beam appears, and that you must do this for every single box.
In the box called “Yahoo ID,” you must create a username for yourself. Whatever you come up with for this box will function as both your username (i.e. what you will use to sign in) and the beginning of your email address. If I were to make my username LibrarianAssistant, it would be my username and my email address would be LibrarianAssistant@yahoo.com. Keep in mind to leave out spaces, and that any capitalization you apply here will always apply. In the future, with my fictional username of LibrarianAssistant, it will be necessary to sign in exactly as that, including variations in capitalization. If I were to attempt signing in as librarianassistant, LIBRARIANASSISTANT, lIbrarianasSistant, etc. I would not be allowed to access my email as any of the above would vary from my actual username.
As you create a username, a grey box will appear beneath the white box you are typing in. This says “Check availability of this ID” inside it. Each time you have typed an ID you would like to have, left click once on this box in order to see if it is available or not. The reason some names are unavailable is that someone else, somewhere in the world already has an account under that username. There cannot be two identical mail accounts; therefore you will have to choose a different username.
After left clicking on the grey box one of two things will happen: A small screen will pop up, the username will be available and will have text on it reading “Congratulations! The ID is available!” and then you will have to left click the box that says “Continue Registration with this ID” below; the other event that may happen is the username will NOT be available, and a small window will pop onto the screen that will say “Yahoo ID is not available,” then below it will offer three variations on the name that are available, and to the right of that it offers you a small box you can enter a different username of your own creation, then check for the availability of that username. This box is located on the right hand side of this smaller screen, beneath text that reads “Try another Yahoo ID.” If one of the three suggested usernames appeals to you and you would like to keep it, all you must do is type it into the box on the right hand side below the text that says “Try another Yahoo ID.” Then, once you have created a username that nobody else already possesses, you will click on the small grey box that says “Check availability of this ID,” and a small screen will pop that says “Congratulations! The ID is available!” and then you must left click once the box below that says “Continue Registration with this ID.”
Now you can proceed on to completing the rest of the boxes of information on the page. Directly below the Yahoo ID box is the Password box. Now you must enter a password for your account. You should definitely make this something you can remember easily, but not something other people could easily figure out. For example, use a word that bears significance for you in addition to a random combination of numbers. An example of a poor password would be simply your maiden name, your dog’s name, the name of the street you live on, etc. This is something that can be easily figured out by other people, people you may not want breaking into your email account. On Yahoo Mail, your password must be at least six characters long. “Characters” refers to both letters and numbers. Remember, it is a good idea to use a combination of both.
Now that you have selected your password and username, you should write them both down! It is very common for people to go through the procedure of setting up an account such as this, and then to completely forget what their username and password are. So, until you have both memorized, it is a good idea to keep that information written down so that you can refer back to it.
Now you will be filling out the information for the section titled “If you Forget your Password.” All of the information you provide in this section you must be able to re-supply later if you forget your password. If you ever forget your username, there will be no way for you to request yahoo to tell you what it is. Without your username, you may have to create a new email account and will never be able to access this email address again. However, yahoo will retrieve your password for you should you ever forget it. This is why this question is included in the application process, so that you will know what information you must be able to re-supply in the future in order to be given your password.
In the first box, you must select a question which you will be able to answer. Left click once on this box, and then select one of the questions presented to you. Now, left click once in the box below, and enter what your answer is. Your answer must be at least four characters long for yahoo to accept it as valid.
After this it is necessary for you to fill out your birth date and zip code. The box that asks for an alternate email is optional, and you do not have to fill that information out.
Below this, the next section is titled “Customizing Yahoo.” It is not required to fill out any of this information, either. You are welcome to provide information about your line of work if you please, but it is not required in order to set up your email account.
Now, you must fill out the section titled “Verify your registration.” To the left of the box is text that reads “Enter the code shown.” There will be a little area right below this box that will be full of random letters and numbers. What you must do is look at that area and type out the letters and numbers as you see them into the box. If you do not replicate the letters and numbers exactly as you see them, you will have to redo it later.
Once finished with that, you are at the final section of this form. Yahoo mail has a small contract for you to look over if you should choose to do so. Most people do not actually read these “Terms of Service” agreements, so if you do not want to bother with reading it you don’t have to. You can skip this step and left-click on the grey box at the bottom of the screen that says “I agree.” If you would like to read the contract, you are able to do so by using the small scrollbar to the right of the box, and by left-clicking the down button to be able to see more of the text. A quick summary of what this contract states is that its rules will be updated from time to time, that occasionally yahoo will send you an email concerning changes and issues with their service, they are not responsible for deleted emails, and that the information you gave in the above form should be all true. There are other points other than those given above, but they are all obvious points that aren’t really necessary to go over- that is, unless you are planning on doing something illegal with your email account. I’m joking, of course. Remember, if you read the entire contract, you must left-click the grey box that says “I agree” at the bottom of the screen in order to proceed through the process.
Now, when you click “I agree,” the yahoo mail service will begin looking at your form for mistakes. For example, it may alert you that you have created a password that is too similar to your username. If yahoo alerts you of something being wrong, simply fix the issue and left-click “I Agree” again.
Either your form will be accepted, or a page will load alerting you to any other mistakes there may be. At the top of this page, there will be a section in yellow, advising you that all fields below high-lighted in yellow must be corrected. And then, you must repeat the step where you look at an area full of random letters and numbers, and then type them into the box with the text reading “Enter the Code Shown.”
Left click the grey button that says “Submit this Form Securely” located at the bottom of the page.
Now, if all has gone well, a new page will load that says “Registration Completed: Welcome!” at the top of the page. This page will also contain a summary of the information you provided. This includes your username, security question, security answer, date of birth, and zip code.
Notice that in the bottom right hand corner of this page there is a grey button that says “Continue to Yahoo! Mail.” Left-click on this button.
Now you are inside of your email account! Congratulations!
I hope this guide has offered you some help in setting up an email account, whether it guided you through the entire process or clarified one minor issue. Soon I will make a guide to navigating through your own email account!
Quick Step Process for Setting Up a Yahoo Mail Account:
Open the internet and go to www.yahoo.com.
Click on either the mail graphic at the top of the page to the right of the large, red
”Yahoo” or the word “Mail” in the list of Yahoo Services.
Click on the link that reads “Sign Up” to load the registration page.
Fill out the required information regarding your name, gender, desired username, etc. If you need assistance with this part, please refer to pages 5-7 of this guide.
Once you have finished filling out the required information in the form, review the terms of service (or skip it), and then you must click in the grey box that says “I agree” to move on to the next step.
o Yahoo will either accept your registration as all steps have been properly completed, or it will alert you to any errors you have made which you must correct, then attempt resending your form by clicking the “I Agree” button once again.
o If your form is now filled out correctly, it will be accepted by Yahoo and you will move on to the next step. If not, you will repeatedly have to correct any errors you have made until you get it right in order to move on.
An informational page will load alerting you to the fact that your registration has indeed been accepted and will give you a reminder as to what your username and password are, along with a reminder of what security question you chose, your answer, the date of birth, and zip code. Take note of all of this, as you will need your username and password to sign in to your email account, and will need to provide your security answer in the even that you lose your password and need to contact Yahoo for it.
Click the grey button that says “Continue to Yahoo! Mail.”
That is as far as this guide will take you! Soon this packet will come with an additional guide to using your email account!
Having your own email account is an incredibly valuable tool in today’s world. It is a fun, convenient way to communicate with family members and friends. Important information, newsletters, jokes, and directions can be shared immediately. It is also essential to functioning in today’s working world. Work related news is often shared through emailing, and it is almost impossible to utilize the online job seeking opportunities available without an email address. Many websites will not even allow you to enter without providing a valid email address.
When it comes to deciding on a provider for your email service, you have several thousand providers to choose from. There are countless companies out there offering email service, and more companies are developing new email services even as you read this. Therefore, before you decide what website you would like to get your email address from, there are a few matters you must consider: how much disk space would you like to have at your disposal (“disk space” refers to the amount of information you will be able to save in your account); what do you want the layout of the mail account to look like; and would you prefer a free account rather than one you must pay for. In order to determine which you would prefer, it will be necessary to use a search engine, run a search for “email provider,” and select a service that fits your requirements. Clearly, it would be a very daunting task to offer a guide to setting up an account with each and every one of these service providers- it would take several thousands of pages to provide such a guide. Due to this reason, I will only be providing information on how to create an email account with yahoo mail, which in my experience has proven to be the most popular email provide. It will be possible to take the following steps and simply apply the necessary adjustments for it to function properly for a different email provider. First, I will give a detailed set of instructions for how to set up a yahoo mail account, and will then follow it up with a less detailed, quick-step process for how to set up an internet account for people more familiar with using the internet.
Open your internet service. If you need assistance with this step, please refer to the set of instructions offered in “A Guide to Opening the Internet.” If you would like to have a copy of that guide, please come to the front desk at the Melvindale Public Library and ask for a copy.
If your homepage is www.yahoo.com skip this step. Otherwise, you must left click once inside the address bar, and then delete the text that is inside it. If you are not sure as to where the address bar is located look to the top of the next page; there is a picture of a typical web page, with the address bar indicated by the white arrow. Remember, you are able to left-click ANYWHERE in the address bar in order to delete out the current web address and type in a new web address. You can left-click anywhere on the text itself, anywhere on the white area to the right of the text, and so on. A tip that may help you to remember where the address bar is located in the future is to take note of the fact that directly to the left of the bar there is the word “Address.” If you are ever confused as to where the address bar is, just look for the white bar with the word “Address” to the left of it.
Once you have left-clicked inside the address bar, take note of where the blinking I-beam is at. The blinking I-beam is actually a blinking, straight line that will appear wherever you click within the text, and you are able to make actions wherever that bar may be. If the blinking I-beam is to the right of the text, you can delete what is there by pressing the backspace key. If it is located to the left of the text, you can delete what is there by pressing the delete key. Both keys are indicated by the white arrows in the image of a keyboard at the top of the next page. Remember that each time you click on either “Backspace” or “Delete” it will only delete the text one letter at a time. It may be necessary to press whichever key you are working with several times in order to successfully delete all of the original text within the address bar.
Now type in www.yahoo.com into the address bar.
Once you have typed in www.yahoo.com, you can let the program know that you want to proceed on to the webpage itself by doing one of two different things. It makes no difference which way you choose to proceed- they have the exact same result. You can either move the mouse over to the right hand side of the address bar and left-click “Go,” or you can press the “Enter” key on your keyboard. Again, it does not matter which of these two options you choose to go with. If you choose to left-click “Go” or press “Enter,” each will let the computer know to load www.yahoo.com equally effectively. For simplicity’s sake, it may be easier to remember the procedure if you decide which way you prefer to do it, and make it a habit of doing so in the future.
Allow www.yahoo.com to completely load onto the screen. Once it is completed, there are a few different ways to proceed into the actual yahoo mail screen. The first location of a link to yahoo mail is the picture of an envelope directly next to the word “Yahoo” at the top of the page. If you look at the picture below, the graphic I am talking about is indicated by the white arrow:
Now all you must do to proceed into yahoo mail using this link is left click once on the picture of the envelope. Another way to load yahoo mail is to left-click once on the word “Mail” in the list of Yahoo Services. The white arrow in the picture below indicates the location of the word “Mail.” Sometimes, the layout of the yahoo webpage is updated, thereby altering where the Yahoo Services list may be located on the page. In such a situation, all you must do is scan your eyes over www.yahoo.com until you see the list in its new location.
Now, once you have selected a link to left-click on to load the yahoo mail page, allow the page to fully load.
To create an email account for yourself, you must left-click once on the button that says “Sign up for Yahoo!” The white arrow in the picture at the top of the next page indicates the typical location for this button. As with the main page of yahoo, at times the appearance of this page may be altered from the state you are familiar with. Occasionally the people that maintain the webpage will update it and change the layout of this screen. In this situation, what you must do is scan across the webpage, keep your eyes peeled for the button that says “Sign up for Yahoo,” left-click on it once, and the sign-up page will load. If you do not see a button that says “Sign up for Yahoo” instead look for the words “Sign up” in blue and left click on those words.
Now, the screen will show you a list of information that needs to be filled out. There are several types of information that needs to be provided such as “First name,” “Last name,” etc. To fill out this information, you must left click once inside each box. By this, I am referring to the small white boxes to the right of each of the categories. Look at the picture below for more clarification of the location of these boxes to be filled out. The white arrow points out the first box:
Progress down through the page filling out the required information. Remember that in order to be able to type within any of the boxes; you must first left-click once inside the box so that the blinking I-beam appears, and that you must do this for every single box.
In the box called “Yahoo ID,” you must create a username for yourself. Whatever you come up with for this box will function as both your username (i.e. what you will use to sign in) and the beginning of your email address. If I were to make my username LibrarianAssistant, it would be my username and my email address would be LibrarianAssistant@yahoo.com. Keep in mind to leave out spaces, and that any capitalization you apply here will always apply. In the future, with my fictional username of LibrarianAssistant, it will be necessary to sign in exactly as that, including variations in capitalization. If I were to attempt signing in as librarianassistant, LIBRARIANASSISTANT, lIbrarianasSistant, etc. I would not be allowed to access my email as any of the above would vary from my actual username.
As you create a username, a grey box will appear beneath the white box you are typing in. This says “Check availability of this ID” inside it. Each time you have typed an ID you would like to have, left click once on this box in order to see if it is available or not. The reason some names are unavailable is that someone else, somewhere in the world already has an account under that username. There cannot be two identical mail accounts; therefore you will have to choose a different username.
After left clicking on the grey box one of two things will happen: A small screen will pop up, the username will be available and will have text on it reading “Congratulations! The ID is available!” and then you will have to left click the box that says “Continue Registration with this ID” below; the other event that may happen is the username will NOT be available, and a small window will pop onto the screen that will say “Yahoo ID is not available,” then below it will offer three variations on the name that are available, and to the right of that it offers you a small box you can enter a different username of your own creation, then check for the availability of that username. This box is located on the right hand side of this smaller screen, beneath text that reads “Try another Yahoo ID.” If one of the three suggested usernames appeals to you and you would like to keep it, all you must do is type it into the box on the right hand side below the text that says “Try another Yahoo ID.” Then, once you have created a username that nobody else already possesses, you will click on the small grey box that says “Check availability of this ID,” and a small screen will pop that says “Congratulations! The ID is available!” and then you must left click once the box below that says “Continue Registration with this ID.”
Now you can proceed on to completing the rest of the boxes of information on the page. Directly below the Yahoo ID box is the Password box. Now you must enter a password for your account. You should definitely make this something you can remember easily, but not something other people could easily figure out. For example, use a word that bears significance for you in addition to a random combination of numbers. An example of a poor password would be simply your maiden name, your dog’s name, the name of the street you live on, etc. This is something that can be easily figured out by other people, people you may not want breaking into your email account. On Yahoo Mail, your password must be at least six characters long. “Characters” refers to both letters and numbers. Remember, it is a good idea to use a combination of both.
Now that you have selected your password and username, you should write them both down! It is very common for people to go through the procedure of setting up an account such as this, and then to completely forget what their username and password are. So, until you have both memorized, it is a good idea to keep that information written down so that you can refer back to it.
Now you will be filling out the information for the section titled “If you Forget your Password.” All of the information you provide in this section you must be able to re-supply later if you forget your password. If you ever forget your username, there will be no way for you to request yahoo to tell you what it is. Without your username, you may have to create a new email account and will never be able to access this email address again. However, yahoo will retrieve your password for you should you ever forget it. This is why this question is included in the application process, so that you will know what information you must be able to re-supply in the future in order to be given your password.
In the first box, you must select a question which you will be able to answer. Left click once on this box, and then select one of the questions presented to you. Now, left click once in the box below, and enter what your answer is. Your answer must be at least four characters long for yahoo to accept it as valid.
After this it is necessary for you to fill out your birth date and zip code. The box that asks for an alternate email is optional, and you do not have to fill that information out.
Below this, the next section is titled “Customizing Yahoo.” It is not required to fill out any of this information, either. You are welcome to provide information about your line of work if you please, but it is not required in order to set up your email account.
Now, you must fill out the section titled “Verify your registration.” To the left of the box is text that reads “Enter the code shown.” There will be a little area right below this box that will be full of random letters and numbers. What you must do is look at that area and type out the letters and numbers as you see them into the box. If you do not replicate the letters and numbers exactly as you see them, you will have to redo it later.
Once finished with that, you are at the final section of this form. Yahoo mail has a small contract for you to look over if you should choose to do so. Most people do not actually read these “Terms of Service” agreements, so if you do not want to bother with reading it you don’t have to. You can skip this step and left-click on the grey box at the bottom of the screen that says “I agree.” If you would like to read the contract, you are able to do so by using the small scrollbar to the right of the box, and by left-clicking the down button to be able to see more of the text. A quick summary of what this contract states is that its rules will be updated from time to time, that occasionally yahoo will send you an email concerning changes and issues with their service, they are not responsible for deleted emails, and that the information you gave in the above form should be all true. There are other points other than those given above, but they are all obvious points that aren’t really necessary to go over- that is, unless you are planning on doing something illegal with your email account. I’m joking, of course. Remember, if you read the entire contract, you must left-click the grey box that says “I agree” at the bottom of the screen in order to proceed through the process.
Now, when you click “I agree,” the yahoo mail service will begin looking at your form for mistakes. For example, it may alert you that you have created a password that is too similar to your username. If yahoo alerts you of something being wrong, simply fix the issue and left-click “I Agree” again.
Either your form will be accepted, or a page will load alerting you to any other mistakes there may be. At the top of this page, there will be a section in yellow, advising you that all fields below high-lighted in yellow must be corrected. And then, you must repeat the step where you look at an area full of random letters and numbers, and then type them into the box with the text reading “Enter the Code Shown.”
Left click the grey button that says “Submit this Form Securely” located at the bottom of the page.
Now, if all has gone well, a new page will load that says “Registration Completed: Welcome!” at the top of the page. This page will also contain a summary of the information you provided. This includes your username, security question, security answer, date of birth, and zip code.
Notice that in the bottom right hand corner of this page there is a grey button that says “Continue to Yahoo! Mail.” Left-click on this button.
Now you are inside of your email account! Congratulations!
I hope this guide has offered you some help in setting up an email account, whether it guided you through the entire process or clarified one minor issue. Soon I will make a guide to navigating through your own email account!
Quick Step Process for Setting Up a Yahoo Mail Account:
Open the internet and go to www.yahoo.com.
Click on either the mail graphic at the top of the page to the right of the large, red
”Yahoo” or the word “Mail” in the list of Yahoo Services.
Click on the link that reads “Sign Up” to load the registration page.
Fill out the required information regarding your name, gender, desired username, etc. If you need assistance with this part, please refer to pages 5-7 of this guide.
Once you have finished filling out the required information in the form, review the terms of service (or skip it), and then you must click in the grey box that says “I agree” to move on to the next step.
o Yahoo will either accept your registration as all steps have been properly completed, or it will alert you to any errors you have made which you must correct, then attempt resending your form by clicking the “I Agree” button once again.
o If your form is now filled out correctly, it will be accepted by Yahoo and you will move on to the next step. If not, you will repeatedly have to correct any errors you have made until you get it right in order to move on.
An informational page will load alerting you to the fact that your registration has indeed been accepted and will give you a reminder as to what your username and password are, along with a reminder of what security question you chose, your answer, the date of birth, and zip code. Take note of all of this, as you will need your username and password to sign in to your email account, and will need to provide your security answer in the even that you lose your password and need to contact Yahoo for it.
Click the grey button that says “Continue to Yahoo! Mail.”
That is as far as this guide will take you! Soon this packet will come with an additional guide to using your email account!