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A Brosco Favourite.

• Planet Tridod - Your free Web site and Geocities - Your free Web site

Both Tripod and Geocities provide you with 2meg to build your website .... FREE. They each use slightly different approaches, so you should check to see which one provides the service best suited to your needs. (I prefer Tripod's approach, but I use the mail forwarding service at Geocities). You are given direct access to your area to update and change it as often as you like. For basic pages, use their Homepage builders, for more advanced, build offline and upload with CuteFTP. (Some people attempt to build XXX pages at these sites, but they are deleted very quickly - so don't bother - if you really want to build a XXX site, email me, I'll tell you where you can do it for FREE).
 
• Crosswinds.  Crosswinds provides UNLIMITED free space for your web site providing that it does not have commercial content.
  
  
  
• Adult Sites.  Yes, there are free adult sites available. I know about 2 of them.  I cannot link to adult sites from here - so drop me an email and I will tell you where to find them!
  
  
  
• The Phrantic Project Provides 3Mb to build your free web page. I didnt investigate too far, as the hosts are heavily into Java, forms and effects. (I like sites that are quick to load). Everyone to their own taste, but their site creators put me off. I am sure the presentaion of this host will appeal to many, its just not my style. So have a look, and if you like it, I will be more than happy to publish your review HERE.

• More Free Webpages at my Links Page

• The HTML Goodies Page Free HTML Tutorials, beginners and advanced, including CGI, Java, etc.

• The Java{TM} Boutique All sorts of Java applications for you to download.

• 24Hour Javascripts: You must register (free) with this site to access their pages. Simply supply your Email address and they will Autosend your access code immediately.


• JavaScript for Beginners Provided by Builder.com. Takes you through a step-by-step approach that will have your first application running in a couple of hours. You will need a Javascript compatible browser (Netscape 2.0 or IE 3.0) and a text editor (Notepad will do).

• Spyglass HTML Validator is a freeware product that will validate your HTML code offline before you upload.

• Dr Watson provides a Free online service to validate your HTML code, and your image and URL links. After you have uploaded your pages, go to this site for immediate validation.

• URLCHECK No matter how good the offline and online validators are, there is nothing like get feedback from another person. This site allows you to list your URL to be reviewed by another webmaster. In return for this free service, you must review someone else's site.

Excellent sources for graphics
to brighten up your web page.

• Sandro's Homepage A terrific collection of Free graphics, including many created by Sandro.

• Free Web Art This Aussie site is a great resourc for Free and Original: Animated GIFs, Animated lines, buttons, bullets, Animated words, backgrounds and much more.

• The Graphics Link Page at Home Sweet Heartland

• The Deep - Free Web Graphics

• netCreators Icon Page: Lots of Free graphics and animations for your webpage.
netCREATORS Icon Page!

• The ScrallWall Homepage Add a Graffiti wall to your site (Free!).

• GuestPad Free Guest Book, or for a one-of payment of $20 you get to edit the presentation of the Guest Book to your own requirements.

• Get your page up and running with plenty of visitors first. (Read my Getting Visitors section). Many advertisers will drop your site if you aren't generating enough hits for them. It will be much harder to allure them back a second time around.
• Don't rely on the income from the advertisers to pay for your fees. They often pay late and sometimes not at all.
• Select advertisers that are somewhat related to the theme of your site, your visitors are more likely to click on these (and thus generate revenue for you).
• Dont get carried away. Your visitors wont come back if you page takes ten minutes to load because of all the advertising banners. Pick one or two quality advertisers - dont go for quantity.
• Be careful of where some of your links to other sites lead. Some advertisers use Browser-Bots to search every page and every link at your site to make sure you dont have any questionable material. For example, this site was rejected by some advertisers for this very reason. I asked for clarification and found that it was because my link below to The Adult Money Report carries links to advertisers of adult sites. These links in turn led to the banners that would need to be placed on the site's pages, and these led to the actual adult sites. Now, I would definitely not consider this an adults-only site, but I was rejected because of the links.

• Web Site Banner Advertising This site reviews the non-adult advertisers, brokers, etc.

• The Adult Money Report Where to find advertisers (mainly Adult XXX companies) for your site. A very comprehensive list that describes each of the companies, payment methods, type of product, etc. It also has a forum for Webmasters to discuss their experiences with using these companies.

• The Good, the Bad & the Ugly - Ratings and Rankings Discusses several of the Adult Advertisers, their payments and policies history.

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• A Simple and easy Counter Here's a free service that you dont even need to register. Just come up with a unique UserID and you're 'up and counting'.

• WebSite Story Has a free counter service for both Adult and Non-Adult sites (register with the right one).

• Internet Count Provides a free service which gathers statistics for you: Hits this month (for each day), by day of week, by week, and by month. Currently the actual 'count of hits' cannot be displayed directly on your page. Click on the 'IC' logo at the bottom of my home page to see the statistics gathered for this site. (You can password protect the statistics so that they can't be accessed by your visitors).

• Digits.com Provides both a free and a commercial service. Due to heavy loads, they are not providing a free service at the moment. Keep checking.

• Counter.com Provides a commercial service.

• More Counters available from my links

• Add your site to the popular Search Engines (see section below). But remember, there are thousands of new sites added every day and there are already 30-40 million sites. Unless you have a very unique site, you will be a long way down the list.
• Advertise you site in the appropriate NewsGroup. Be very careful though. Some groups frown on any type of promotion. Others accept it if your content is appropriate. Read all the contents at the group, and you will quickly determine if you should be there or not. Remember though, messages in Newsgroups only have a certain "life" and are deleted after a period of time. You will need to go back regularly to re-post your site promotion.
• Search for other sites that have a similar theme to yours and ask to exchange links. (Most of the sites that I refer to in these pages carry a similar link to me. If they carry my banner, I carry theirs. If they have a text link to me, I provide a text link to them).
• If you create a banner for your site for exchange purposes, make sure it clearly states what your site is about. Also some banner exchange programs have clear guidelines about the size. The most commonly accepted banner has the following attributes: GIF format, 400x40 pixels, maximum of 7k, NO animation and NO transparrent content. See Banner Creation below.
• Join some of the Link Exchange programs.

• Visit LinkExchange to get advice on Banner Creation, Tutorials, etc.

• Crecon Banner Creation and Banner Generation. Both sites offer free online banner creation.

• Gif Wizard: Trims the fat off your banner, ensures it meets LinkExchange requirements and submits it to LinkExchange for you.

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The World Wide Web Broadcaster. Free submission to 200 search engines all done automatically. (Most Free submission services provide great assistance, but you still must visit each service individually). This services takes all the details and does everything for you! and then keeps you informed by Email of the progress.

• SmartSubmit Submit your site to 35 Search engines for Free.

• MMGCO's Webstep: Top 100 places to list your site. You submit to each site individually for free, or pay the $80 for them to do it for you.