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Free is good. Terrific is better. Simple is best.Oct 31 '00 Write an essay on this topic.I’m in love. I have a “pay for” site, a couple of college-sponsored sites and a few freebies. Freeservers.com eats their lunch! I’m a bit reluctant to write this review. First I don’t want the hordes of epinion’ folk to join en mass and slow down a speedy service. Second I don’t want the freeserver folk to recognize how good they are and start charging real dollars. This organization has made web construction free, idiot-proof and totally flexible. Your site will be fast and slick with minimal effort. Let’s start with a visit. Click on “signup”. Select a name and a domain. The site name will be something like mine: swh.8m.com (my college' grade site. Check it out). The intermediate selection of names (what I incorrectly called “domain” above) numbers about fifteen. Many are short (8k, 4t, s5) others are “interest related” (iwarp, faithweb, itgo). Want e-mail or e-mail linkage to your “regular” account? Do it. You will go through the usual name, address, e-mail etc. routine. No credit card stuff or any really prying questions. Now start building your site. The freeservers' folk have a few nice templates and a “free form” model. Let’s pick that one. Your next menu gives you a selection of page formats. All are professional. Click one. Now select a color-scheme. Again, if you are “artistically challenged” pick any one of them. The Wizard now proffers a selection with several pages in the suggested model (photos, favorite links, etc.). Unclick the ones you don’t need (it’s usually easier to add pages then to delete extraneous ones). Now (or later on) go into the edit mode. You do this by entering your password after a teeny login prompt in the upper left-hand side of the screen. Each of your web pages will be selectable from a “dropdown” menu. Pick a page. Each frame on that page will have a small orange edit symbol. Pick the one you want to start with and convert the “boilerplate” to your message. The template will have sample photos. Update by clicking the unwanted picture’s edit button. Now replace with your own scanned or digital picture. A series of menus will let you browse your drive and upload to theirs. Let me say this again. Your photos can be hosted on their site: not some intermediary location. Hmmmm, anybody use a hosting service for e-bay? Now each page on your site has bee updated to reflect your message. Great. Now let’s add a counter and a few other neat things. The menu will give you the html code for these neat frills. Either copy/paste or jot the code down and manually enter it on your desired page. Want some advertising “clicks” to make a few pennies? The menu will list several vendors and their benefits. As above this will involve entering the html code. (This might seem a bit challenging). Wrong. This morning I advised a gray-haired nun in her authoring of a terrific site. The finished product will be very professional (especially if you’ve spell-checked). The obligatory one-inch advertising banner disappears as you scroll down. Is that neat or not! Want to use your own authoring software like FrontPage? No problem. Want to ftp stuff to your new site? No problem. Search engine submission (or your own search engine)? No problem again. As a small business, I craved my very own URL. The freeserver folk should have been around a few years ago and I would have saved a lot of time and money. Summary: superior in all respects. This review is slightly off-topic. It's however too good a service to wait until epinions updates.  |
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