Freebies for Web page authors
- WebSite
Abstraction - Helpful
resource for various Webmaster freebies:
JavaScript, graphics and Web tools. There's also
a good Microsoft FrontPage tutorial and lots of
annotated links to other Web page building
resources.
- NetMechanic
- This free service
is a must for Webmasters. The site features
various robots that will comb your site for
broken links, locate bad HTML tags and rate your
server's response time.
- Swingout's
Free Forum Networks - This site is offering free forums
and bulletin boards. Easy to set up.
- Jobvertise.com
- This service allows
you to easily add job listings to your site. Use
their intuitive interface to add, edit or delete
jobs listings on your Web site. They store the
software and data on their servers, so there is
no installation. Jobvertise is also customizable
to match your existing Web site.
- WebTechs
Validation Service - Making sure your Web page is
correctly coded can be a real challenge. That's
where this service comes in. Here, you can submit
your HTML document (or a portion of a document)
and find out if it's correctly coded. This
service will return a list of errors on your page
and tell you what and where they are. You can
also have this validator check for needless
coding in your page, as well as remove script
coding, as well as other options.
- MrPost
- This nifty service
allows you to add E-mail, along with many other
features, to your Web site for free. After
creating a MrPost account, your visitors can
login to use MrPost's extensive messaging
features and be returned to your site upon
exiting the MrPost environment. Upon
registration, custom code will be generated for
your Web site. Simply paste the code into your
website, and your SiteHost account will be
active.
- Bravenet.com
- This site offers
lots of free services for your Web page. For one
thing, they offer a search engine that your
visitors can use to search your site. (This is
the only free local search engine we've seen).
There's also guestbooks, Web forums, hit
counters, E-mail forms and more. You don't need
CGI-BIN access to implement these services. And
Bravenet.com hosts the services on their own
server.
- Web
Site Garage -
This is an essential site for "tuning
up" your Web site. There are various
utilities that will check your site's performance
in areas such as load time, spelling, dead links,
site popularity, correct HTML design and more.
There's also a useful "GIF Lube"
feature that lets you shrink the size of your
site's images, so they'll load quicker.
- Link-Me
Links Exchange Database - One of the best ways to promote your
site is through reciprocal links. This resource
is a good place to start. This site also lists
over 500 "free-for-alls," which are
basically bulletin boards that you can add your
site to (and believe it or not, they do pull in
traffic).
- InternetJump
- This service is
offering you the chance to have an
easy-to-remember Web site address. For example:
if your current address is
www.teztrisp.com/ourusers/~directories/YourCompany.html,
people will automatically jump to this site with
either of these addresses:
www.internetjump.com/YourCompany or
Fast.to/YourCompany.
- StellarSite
Web Designs - Do
you need help getting your page up and going?
Check with these guys: they're a group of
nonprofit volunteers who provide free custom
graphics and HTML design.
- JL
Designs - This
company is offering free page design and
graphics. Please tell them The Free Site sent
you.
- Survey
Lab - This is
a Web-based application that automates the entire
creation and administration of online surveys and
lets you access results instantly from the
convenience of your browser. No software to
install, no need for custom programming, and no
need for any daily administration.
- EPage
Webmaster classified ads program - How'd you like to add
classified ads to your Web site? You can, with
this service. Webmasters can choose to mirror the
full EPage Classifieds and/or AuctionPage.com
auctions. In addition, you can create your own
categories. The ads will be posted into EPage and
Auctionpage where possible.
- MyPostcards.com
- This site enables
you to add a free digital greeting card service
to your Web site; something that's bound to
enhance your page's appeal with visitors.
- Web Cards
sample - If
you have a Web page of your own, this is a
must-have freebie. Click on the "Free Sample
Request Form" to get a Web Cards sample. Web
Cards are printed postcards with an image of your
home page on one side and your custom message on
the other.
- ClickTrade
- This service allows
you to reward other Web site owners for linking
to your site. Here, you may be either an
"advertiser" or a "link
partner." As an advertiser you reward link
partners on a pay-per-click basis for linking to
your site. As a link partner you earn revenue for
sending traffic to advertiser sites.
- Event
calendars - This
site offers free scripts for generating HTML from
your event descriptions. The output is a nicely
formatted calendar (HTML table) ready for saving
and uploading to your Web site.
- A
Kinder, Gentler HTML Validator - Writing HTML is so easy
that a child could do it (many do). However,
writing correct, accurate HTML is a tougher task
that can challenge even seasoned Web authors. If
you've built a Web page and want to make sure
it's error-free, then click over to this free
service. It will check your page and tell you if
you've got errors and where they are.
- Dr.
Watson - This
is a free service that not only checks for coding
errors on your Web page, it also checks for that
great bane of Web authoring: broken links.
- Rank
This! - This
is an online tool to help you determine your
"ranking" on different keyword sets in
8 of the major search engines. Rank This! tells
you not only if your site is in the top 200
results, but also lists the sites that are in the
top 10 on that search. There's also a guide for
helping you improve your rankings.
- Web
Tutor - If
you're new at designing Web pages, you really
need to check out this outstanding tutorial,
which you can download and then view in your
browser, off-line. It'll teach you everything you
need to know about building a Web site, from the
basics to frames to forms to frames and more.
- Inspector
Web - If you
run a Web site, you've no doubt run into the
problem of keeping your links current. If this
has been a hassle for you, check out this site,
which offers a free service to check your site's
URLs. After checking your links, (up to 800 under
the free service) Inspector Web creates an HTML
report, and notifies you by E-mail.
- HTML
Reference Library - This is an essential free tool for
learning HTML. The HTML Reference Library is a
Windows Help file, that details with numerous
screenshots and examples and all of the currently
supported HTML elements.
- MyTimer.com
- This is a
revolutionary new service to help you analyze
your Web traffic. It tells you how long people
have viewed your site. (helpful if you're
wondering if people are just whizzing by your
site or are spending significant time there).
- WebPromote's
Meta tag builder - If you have a Web site, then you
need to have "Meta tags" on your page
to get the best placement on the search engines.
This free service will build optimized Meta tags
for you, based on the details of your site that
you provide.
- Free Code
- Lots of coding
goodies here that are written in C/C++, Java,
Perl or Visual Basic that are compatible with
Unix and/or Windows. Categories include CGI,
chat, E-mail forms, HTML, Internet protocols,
online applications, user interface components
and Web hosting tools.
- Dream
Catchers CGI Scripts - Great resource for freeware CGI
scripts. These CGI scripts are made available to
Web designers, servers, programmers, and anyone
else who can find a use for them free of charge
by Dream Catchers Technologies, Inc. Scripts
include a message board, menu, advertiser
tracking, counter, guestbook, rotating link, etc.
- javElink
- A useful new site,
javElink offers a Web page change monitoring
service. The first 20 pages are free. With
javElink, you can check on pages in a few
seconds; monitor how much a specific page is
changing; link directly to pages that contain new
information and know daily whether your favorite
Web pages have changed.
- Recommend-It.Com
- This service offers
a good way for you to build traffic on your Web
site. Just sign up and then you may place their
link on your Web site. When your visitors click
on that link, they can quickly and easily
recommend your site to their friends.
- Matt's
Script Archive - If you have CGI access with your
Unix Web hoster, then you should check out this
essential site that offers tons of free C++ and
Perl CGI scripts. There's a lot of neat goodies
here to spice up your Web site, including a
message board, a search engine, a counter, a
"free-for-all" links page, a form
mailer, an HTTP cookie library, a random image
displayer, a random image generator, a text clock
and much more.
- Bobby Web
page analyzer -
Bobby is a free Web-based service that will help
you make Web pages accessible to people with
disabilities. It will also find HTML
compatibility problems that prevent pages from
displaying correctly on different Web browsers.
- Crunchie
- If you build Web
pages, this next freeware utility, Crunchie, is
useful for 2 reasons: it compresses your HTML
coding, so your pages may load slightly faster.
Crunchie also squeezes your coding together,
which can help discourage HTML theft. Our only
problem with Crunchie is that it sometimes runs
bits of text together, so you should be careful
using it.
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- WebScripts
(free Perl CGI scripts) - This site offers several quality
free CGI scripts: Web Log (a log analyzer tool);
WebTests (a site management tool); WebLibs (which
allows you to set up "stories" on your
site which visitors can complete by "filling
in the blanks; " WebBBS (a quality Web
bulletin board); and more.
- Virtual
Colony -
Great collection of free sounds and MIDI files
for your Web pages and computer (PCs, Macs and
Sun/Next files included). User MIDI primer, as
well. (Linkback required)
- CGI Free - Got a Web site, but no
CGI script access? Then check out this service.
CGI Free offers free CGI hosting. Features
include browser redirection, random images, a
form mailer, random quotes,
"countdown," animation, clock,
slideshow, random link, menu direction and text
date.
- VisitWeb - Free URL redirection
service that alleviates the need for potential
visitors to your site having to remember long and
exacting URL's. Visitors can use easy-to-remember
words and phrases as pointers to your site.
- InfoLink
Freeware link checker - This freebie program has all the
tools necessary to help maintain your site. With
the extensive set of reports built after each
verification, you can easily locate and correct
problem links and pages, and you can utilize the
statistic reports to keep a log of your site's
integrity.
- Free
Web site templates - You don't have to put a lot of
work into having a great-looking Web page---Web
Diner does the work for you! Just download some
of the cool templates offered here.
- Just
'n' Case Cartoons - This site offers free "G"
rated cartoons for use on homepages, newsletters,
brochures etc.
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