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Free Resources For Webpage Builders

Ok so your here, you want to create/enhance your webpage with free stuff? Need a counter, guestbook, voting booth, E-Mail alias to use on your page? You've come to the right place pal! On this page you will find numberous counters, guestbooks and whatever else, and my evaluations on them. Why am I doing this? Well, I wanted a free counter for my page, and wasn't sure where to get one. I looked around, and found out it wasn't all that easy to find free things. So I went through hundreds of search results and thought to myself, what a waste of time for one counter. So I decided to put up this page, to put that knowledge of where to get things to use to help people build up their webpage. No, this page isn't just counters. It's tons of stuff. Maybe I should just get to the stuff?

FREE WEBSPACE

Ok, so you want to get space to put your Great and Almighty webpage huh? Well to tell you the truth webspace was one of the easier things to find, however I do have a nifty list here, and evaluations on some (I will get around to them all some day.)

  • www.Tripod.com Tripod is one of my favorite webspace providers. You can find both my guestbook, and message base there. Also, here is a sample page.
  • www.Geocities.com Geocities is one of the larger webspace providers around. I have a sample page there.
  • www.Angelfire.com They seem to have done something to speed up their server.
  • www.Nether.net Wow! I sent off E-Mail, and in a week I had a response. Pretty good! Ok, to get on you have to telnet in (nether.net) and logon as newuser. You log directly into a Linux box, so be prepared for Unix! If you don't know Unix, theres lots of places that have the basic commands for people, or an easier choice would be to pick a different free webspace place.
  • www.MainQuad.com Mainquad seems to be mostly for college students, however they accept anyone.
  • CyQuest Webservices Looks promising! Heres a sample page.
  • Hong Kong Online's Cybercity I'm currently in process of getting an account (still waiting....)
  • TTGCITN Looks rather promising, currently getting an account
  • Fatty Net Apparently its a Japanese student place, however they serve everyone. I'm still waiting, might be backlogged.
  • www.eccentrica.com Hmm.. some nice features.
  • www.TrailerPark.com Hey wow what a site! What features!
  • www.Naz.com What's there to say?
  • www.toptown.com They are for students!
  • www.spidercity.com They allow both personal, and commercial webpages

    • I think you can find a place to put your webpage in there!

    Free HTML help

    Ok, so you have that place to put your webpage and kick off your boots. No actually that would probably mess up your keyboard, just put your webpage there. So what do I do now? Well I won't go into detail nearly as much in this section. Basically I'll give you the links, and you can go look at them.

    Free page counters

    Ok, I claimed this was what started it all didn't I? Let's see what I can do to help you.. No I won't have webcounter on here as a free counter, no I won't have anything that outdated. Isn't it obnoxious when you come accross a page and they say "Free counters? look at webcounter"?

  • counters.fr.eu.org Most of my counters I use are from them. No they don't have a lot of dfferent styles, just 4, but they have some good options. You can put a counter on a page as a 1 by 1 transparent image, so you can count people without them seeing a counter, I use this on a couple of my pages. You can put your counters on a different page with an option that will prevent that page from incrementing your counters, I also use this also. I like this place as if you couldn't tell.
  • www.webpost.net/guest.html They give you a free guestbook and a free counter. It looks like its just a guestbook unless you can see the java, anyhow you get all the info you need for both of those.
  • Cyberhits They give you a free counter, date, and clock.They have about a dozen styles to choose from, I also like this place if you don't want a plain counter (for the styles.)
  • Infoboard They give you a free counter, and have 10 styles to choose from
  • DUX webcounters They give you a free counter, and oh the styles! Just tons and tons. Trust me, there is deffinetly over 300 (this is not exageration!), possibly more than 400! However they do have a problem (can't be too good to be true) every time the person viewing the page hits their back button to back to the page (like if they went off a link, and hit back) it reloads the counter. I haven't got a clue as to why, but lots of styles!
  • FreeAndFun They give you a counter in exchange for a link.
  • PageCount Pagecount gives you a counter, with a banner from one of their sponsers. So they make money by putting a banner on your page with a counter on the banner. However, they offer lots of stats on who visits your page, what time of day, etc.
  • Webtracker Ok you've all seen the thing right? Well it keeps track of hits, stats (what browser, time of day, operating system, domain (com, net, org, etc.) Very useful.
  • Be sure to check the Free webspace area on this page, some of those servers give free counters.

    • Free guestbooks

  • freegb.i-exposed.com Whats there to say about a guestbook? uh, people can sign it, and leave they're E-Mail address.. they're homepage address.. er I'll just go over ones that have good features, and list the other ones k?
  • Webpost gives you a free guestbook and counter
  • www.spin.de/YASGDB They give you a free guestbook and counter also
  • www.tripod.com They give access to a CGI script that takes information put into a form, and posts it at the bottom of a page (basically a personalized guestbook) You can only do this on page on they're server, but thats also free. So hey, put your webpage wherever, and put a guestbook there. Thats what I did
  • Be sure to check the Free webspace area on this page, some of those servers give free guestbooks.

    • Free E-Mail

    Ahh, so how is E-Mail connected to building a website? Well, believe it or not I can make up anything! So heres my story, your putting up a page, and its on fish. You don't want to use your Darkvader@notreal.email because you don't want people to think are into fishing, not Starwars =). Ok, so heres the solution, you either get another E-Mail box, or E-Mail forwarding, and put the mailto: link to something else like Fishguy@notreal.email. See, told you I could make up a story for anything.

    Hit creating for your website

    Ahh that eternal question. Now that I have my page up and running how do I get people to it? Well lets start off with the basics.

  • www.Submit-It.com registers your site with all the major search engines for free. You fill out a form, and go to a submitting area where you just hit submit (and occasionally pick something, like a catagory) a bunch of times.Its pretty useful.
  • www.LinkExchange.com The Internet Link Exchange is a free service. You put a banner on top of any number of your pages, you submit a banner to them, and for every two times the banner on top of your page is displayed, your banner is displayed somewhere else once. I use this service.
  • Signing your name on E-Mail; This can help bring people to your site, especially if your in any newsgroups or mailing lists.
  • Exchanging links with other sites: Basically you ask another site if they'd be willing to put a link to you on their page, if you put a link to them on yours
  • www.Webring.org You join a webring, and put a ring graphic which allows people to navigate the ring on your page. There are tons and tons of webrings (including 13 (I think, is it more?) on Sailor Moon) I run Ring Of Confusion which is a general site ring. Basically no theme
  • www.TheRail.com The Rail is basically a webring. It shuffles the order its in every day however, which is kind of neat. And they also have different catagories.
  • Some places let surfers put a link to their page in a special section, or in the guestbook. Look around, theres plenty of these.
  • Anything else? who knows. I've probably missed lots of stuff..
  • www.geocities.com They have a "link exchange" of their own for member pages.
    Other stuff

    • Yeah I know, not very specific area.. Its not meant to be! This is kind of like my clutter corner. Maybe I should name it that? Nah for now Other stuff does just fine. So this is where you'll find things that just don't fit elsewhere in the page.

  • Voting Booths You can put a nifty little voting booth (See one in action on my index.htm page) for a variety of reasons. Perhaps you want to see if people like your site. Or maybe they could use it and vote on whether they want more graphics or extended text. Whatever the reason this is a very useful service.
  • Check the Free Webspace area, some places give you access to some nifty CGI scripts
    Special request

    • You want something for your page, but its not here? You can just E-Mail me at Zem@DeathsDoor.com and I'll find whatever it is, or who knows maybe I won't be able to find it but I probably will, and E-Mail you either way. You could also, tell me what you think through that address..

    Want to sign my guestbook?

    How did I find all this stuff? Mostly with Altavista. Yep, you know those long lists of pages that come up? I went through a few dozen of those.

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