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 Webmasters Tools - A well-done, nicely organized roundup of freebie resources for Webmasters. Categories include free site promotion services, Java stuff, free Web page authoring tools, CGI scripts, free space providers and money-making opportunities for your Web site.
- Radio Cards for your site - Here's a good way to add novel, custom content to your site that'll keep your visitors returning: Radio Cards. These are free digital postcards, (that feature live Net radio stations) that your visitors may send and receive at your site. You may customize this card service with your own images, ads, etc. A unique and interesting service. Tell Cian we sent you.
- EZpolls - Are you looking for feedback from your site's visitors on a particular topic? Or would you like your visitors to vote on a particular issue? EZpolls offers a free, easy-to-set-up custom poll generator. You don't need to know CGI scripting: all you need to do is follow the instructions to create an interactive poll that you can customize to match your site's appearance.
- NAMEzero - We've had a number of visitors ask us if there is a free service around that offers you your own domain (www.YourName.com). This ad-supported service is now accepting applications for a free service that offers you your own domain and "personal portal." The service is available for individuals, as well as small businesses. (International availability).
- Netwhistle.com - It's every Webmaster's worst nightmare: your site crashes (and if you're not watching it at the time, you're not even aware of it). This unique free service gives you peace of mind. Netwhistle.com constantly monitors your site and alerts you with detailed error information (via your E-mail or pager) if your site ever goes down.
- Tough Media - Ready to jazz up your Web site? This unique free service lets you build a multimedia presentation, using Flash technology. You can design your presentation here online, choosing from their template collection. Just fill in the form, preview your masterpiece and then generate your production (and it'll be E-mailed to you right away). Note: the Macromedia Flash plugin, which is needed to view these presentations, is included with the Explorer and Netscape browsers (from version 4 onward).
- Website Designs - Solid resource for Webmasters, offering a number of worthwhile free goodies, including a banner exchange and a free graphics section. Be sure to check out the "Web Builder Zone," where you'll find loads of info on site promotion, winning awards, site building tips & tricks and more.
- Easy Submit - Do you want to get the word out to the search engines about your Web site? This free service lets you easily submit your site to over 50 search engines.
- Webmaster-Resources.com - This site offers a roundup of free Webmaster's stuff, as well as articles about site design and promotion, and a newsletter. They also offer info on mailing list servers; online tools; Web site development programs; counters & trackers; how to make money from your site, and much more. They also offer a free URL submission service.
- Affinia - How'd you like your own storefront on your Web site? A free service, Affinia, lets you easily and quickly create a storefront for your site. (A storefront is basically a customized shopping area, with products that're geared to your site's audience). If you're looking to earn revenue from your site, this is a good approach.
- Agum Network - CGI scripting: unless you're a real geek, it can be a pain to set up these essential components for any Web site. Agum Network provides CGI script hosting for free. Scripts here do such tasks as tracking your visitors, setting up a Meta tag generator and more. There's also such goodies here as "In-Tracker" and "Out-Tracker," (which track your visitors' info and where they enter or depart your site).
- tuneinsports.com - tuneinsports.com, the Web's top sports schedule site, offers an easy way for you to add their content to your Web site (thus providing helpful content that'll give your visitors incentive to return). Just click on the "Add tuneinsports content to your site" link and follow the simple directions.
- Free Games for your Web Site - One sure way to draw visitors to your site is to add fun, interactive content. And free games that offer prizes are a good way to achieve this. There are a number of services out there that let you easily add interactive games to your site. But Uproar offers the best program around. And they even pay you 50 cents every time a visitor signs up to play their free games. Uproar's "Blitz Associates Program" is free itself and the Java-based trivia games they offer are quite entertaining.
- Responders.Net - This free service allows you to easily add request forms to your site without programming. Using their forms, you may ask your visitors up to 10 questions (and the results will be automatically E-mailed to you).
 Agum Network - CGI scripting: unless you're a real geek, it can be a pain to set up these essential components for any Web site. Agum Network provides CGI script hosting for free. Scripts here do such tasks as tracking your visitors, setting up a Meta tag generator and more. There's also such goodies here as "In-Tracker" and "Out-Tracker," (which track your visitors' info and where they enter or depart your site).
- Freeboards - Are you looking for a good message board for your site? This is one of the better free message board services around. Hosted on a solid Unix server, Freeboards offers a good customizable package that includes unlimited messages, message filtering and a search engine for your board.
- Your Polls - Would you like to know what's on your visitor's minds? Here, you can sign up for a free, customizable Web poll for your site. You can plug in any questions you'd like and receive unlimited responses. Your Polls offers real-time updates and more.
- Swingout's Free Forum Networks - This site is offering free, customized forums and bulletin boards for your Web site. Easy to set up.
 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. Easy to customize and fun to use. Here, you can get a free "Easy Home Page Generator" Perl script, which allows your site's visitors the chance to create their own home page without installing additional HTML or CGI scripts. Note: A Easy Guestbook Generator Perl script is now also available for free. It allows your site's visitors the chance to create their own guestbook without installing additional HTML or CGI scripts.
- Page Magic - Getting your own Web page up and going couldn't be simpler, thanks to these guys. They offer free Web page design, free Web space, free graphics design and free promotion. This service can be used for personal pages, educational pages, "information" pages and nonprofit groups.
- AAA Web Design List - Here's a helpful site that serves up a collection of free Web site designer resources, including 2,000 backgrounds and textures and almost 300 programs and scripts. They feature a directory of that "allows Web designers worldwide to promote their businesses for free." They also offer a free URL redirection service. Using it, your cumbersome URL can be: soar.to/YourSite.
- Fast Submit - This site lives up to its name: it's a fast, free way to get the word out about your site to the major search engines. Just fill in your information, choose the search engines you'd like to submit to and click the button and you're all set.
- ListBot - This service offers a free mailing list for your Web site. ListBot's mailing lists allow you to send announcements and news to people who sign up. It uses a centralized database so that list members only have to enter their information once and can manage all of their subscriptions from a single Web site. We've had a few visitors complain that they can't access their Listbot accounts lately.
- 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.
- Web Site Garage - An essential (and unique) service for "tuning up" your Web site. There are various utilities here that will check your site's performance in areas such as load time, spelling, dead links, site popularity, correct HTML design and more. Web Site Garage's free service is excellent, but their referral program for Webmasters is terrible. (Note: you may only "tune up" one page at a time, using the free version of their service).
- 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).
- 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 free 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 - If you need assistance with handling cookies, setting up password protection, processing forms, searching
databases or adding a counter, then check out Free Code. There's lots of coding free 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 - Good 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.
- 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.
- Come.To - A Web page URL redirection service from the Netherlands that lets you have a nifty, short, easy-to-remember Web site address such as travel.to/myco. This service is free, provided that you place their icon on your page. There has been a number of copycat services that've emerged since Come.to launched, but this service is still the largest of its kind.
- URL-Minder - Your own personal Web robot - Do you wish you could notify your visitors when the content on your pages changes? Then try out this free service. Just register your page(s) with URL-Minder and they'll send you coding to place on your site, which produces a form. When your visitors enter their E-mail address in the form, then they'll automatically be notified any time your page is updated.
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