Free
Tutorial from PrillyCharmin.com

Amazing
Free Web Site Resources
We use most
of these wonderful free programs and services. In most
cases I have upgraded to the paid version, but the free
programs and services are fully functional and are
excellent.
FREE WEB
HOSTING:
At FREESERVERS.COM you can get
free Web Hosting. They provide 1 gig of data transfer per
month. Their base level monthly fee for a paid upgrade is
$3.99 per month:
http://www.freeservers.com/

TRIPOD at Lycos is another free
web hosting site that's good:
http://www.tripod.lycos.com/

You can probably find more if you
Google for Free Web Hosting.
FREE PHOTO
HOSTING:
Free Photo Hosting at
Photobucket. You can make a SLIDESHOW in Photobucket, and
then LINK to it from GeoCities. Very kewl addition to a
web site!!
http://photobucket.com/

If you link to photos at
Photobucket, be sure to resize them first. Otherwise your
photos will look a lot different on your web site than
they do at Photobucket. Photobucket resizes the
appearance of the photo without resizing the photo
itself. It's better to physically resize your photos
using a photo editor software. Don't depend on
Photobucket for editing.
PICASA
PHOTO HOSTING:
The Picasa website offers free
photo hosting as well as a free program for photo
editing:
http://picasa.google.com/

How to
Start / Create Your Own Website:
The
Beginner's A-Z Guide
by Christopher
Heng
This awesome page has lots MORE
resources and programs for you. He recommends some of the
same programs I do.
http://www.thesitewizard.com/gettingstarted/startwebsite.shtml

Here is a free HTML program
that Christopher recommends. I've used it, and it's one
of the best I've seen. I don't like the
"publish" feature, but you don't have to use
that. Just use an FTP program instead.
http://www.nvu.com/download.php

And, a
tutorial on NVU:

FRONT PAGE
EXPRESS
I use Front
Page Express for making my HTML pages. It is a free
program that was distributed with Internet Explorer 4.
Instructions for downloading and installing Front Page
Express are on Lesson 1 of this tutorial site.

FRONT PAGE
TUTORIALS
I use Front Page Express
primarily, and the good news is: it's Free. I do a lot of
work with HTML directly but I do even more of my HTML
pages in Front Page Express. It's hard to find downloads
for this free program anymore but here's a great site.
You can download an English version, or Spanish. They
have an FTP option if you'd rather download it that way:
Here is a FrontPage Express
Tutorial:
http://accessfp.net/fpexpress.htm

HTML TEXT
EDITOR
In addition to Front Page
Express, I used Editpad and I love it. This is the best
text editor. And it's FREE for personal use.
http://www.editpadpro.com/editpadlite.html

HTML
TUTORIALS
I've used this site for years:
http://www.pageresource.com/html/index.html

Here is their LINKS page with
MORE great sites:
http://www.pageresource.com/html/index7.htm

Here is an interactive HTML
tutorial for beginners. I like the simple lesson plan. If
you only learn this much, you've learned enough to do a
web site. In fact, this is about all I know:
http://www.davesite.com/webstation/html/

HTML TAGS
A handy reference list of the most frequently
used HTML code tags. This is a text file, you must open
it with Notepad or another text editor.
codes.txt

FILE
TRANSFER UTILITY
File
Transfer Utility, or FTP programs, are very necessary for
loading your pages to the web. Here are two free programs
that are very good:
Classic FTP
from NCH Software:

Freeware File Transfer Utility.
To Download FileZilla to a PC:

Click the Download button.
File Size: 3.62 MB
GRAPHICS
& PHOTO EDITORS:
PICASA is a free photo editing,
photo albums and thumbs viewer from Google. Very nice
program:
http://picasa.google.com/

I like XNView the best, and it's
FREEWARE, so the price is definitely right!
http://perso.orange.fr/pierre.g/xnview/enxnview.html

FREE
GRAPHICS / LINKWARE
There are many sites online that
offer free web site graphics. Some are basic colors and
backgrounds and buttons. Other sites offer incredibly
beautiful original designs that are free for the taking:
all they ask is that you put a link on your site,
acknowledging where you got the graphics from.
Here is a site with a zillion
FREE Backgrounds & Borders:
GRSites.com

These sites offer LINKWARE, which
is FREE designer graphics. Just link to their web site if
you use any of their stuff. There are some very beautiful
designs on these sites:
Feeling Nostalgic

Groovy Lizard Ltd

The Art Of Penny Parker

V i c t o r i a n E l e
g a n c e

Rose Garden Graphics

Gentle
Treasures

Joyful Heart Designs

ADD-ON's...
Add a STORE to your web site.
Link to Horsengoggle.com auctions where you can set up
your own Storefront:
http://www.horsengoggle.com/

ADD-ON's...
Add a free MESSAGE BOARD to your
web site. Link to Pro-Boards where you can create your
own message board:
http://www.proboards.com/index.html

ADD-ON's...
Add a MAILING LIST at Yahoo
eGroups. You can even put a signup page on your site:
http://groups.yahoo.com/

ADD-ON's...
Add a SLIDESHOW to your site.
First, create the slideshow at PhotoBucket, and then link
to it. This is a good way to add photos because it saves
you from using as much of your daily data transfer
limits.
http://photobucket.com/

FREE SEARCH ENGINE CODE
FROM GOOGLE:
http://www.google.com/searchcode.html
You can add Google search to
your web site, for free.
Visitors can search your site for something specific,
or they can Google the entire web.
SEARCH
ENGINES
Get your site listed on Search
Engines, for FREE. You just need to add their avatar to
your home page:
http://www.addme.com/

This service lets you do a web
site submission to the top 14 search engines and
directory for free. Your site will be submitted to the
following search engines: focusLook, Burf, Subjex, Alexa,
Scrub The Web, Google, LookSeek, Jayde, InfoTiger,
NerdWorld, Aeiwi, Walhello, LifeTips, ExactSeek, and
EntireWeb.
Note that Google is on the
list! What more do you need?

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