Savings-plus: Free Things for Webmasters
The Best Free & 'Not So Very Expensive' Genuinely Useful Things on the Net | ||||
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| Search Engine Submission |
Search Engine Submitter |
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| Free Encrypted Online Backup Storage System |
Mozy Free Encrypted Online Backup Storage that actually works. Try it. It's brilliant! Get up to 2GB secure free storage. Automatically back up your files so that when (not if) your computer crashes, you can restore you precious data. I cannot recommend this highly enough! | |||
| Web Hosting & Domain Names |
Cheap domain names Cheap Hosting Range of Personal and Professional Packages Free Templates and Web Page Creation Wizard Free Software - ftp, graphics, site-submission, web page creation Guestbooks, counters, forums Webmail Service PHP, MYSQL, CGI for the advanced user Great reliability and support | |||
| And the rest |
There are one or two places where you can find most of what you need for free -
guestbooks, counters, friend referrers, forums, form feedbacks, counters,
polls, online stores, postcards, password protection, noticeboards, classified
advertising, free-for-all links, chat rooms, site search engines. One of the most reliable is: Bravenet We are using Bravenet's free forum facilities for the forum on this site's Home page . Check it out and add your comments. | |||
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Accept Credit Card Payments
securely, without a Merchant Account |
Yes it is possible. You can get secure payment facilities without paying a mint in fees and set-up charges. If you can handle copying basic HTML into your site, you could be accepting secure credit card payments on your site, at a fraction of the cost of setting up a merchant account, within minutes. One solution even throws in a free shopping cart. If you want to sell single items, accept donations, sell multiple items, or collect subscriptions, there are alternatives to the traditional route (rent secure webspace, buy shopping cart, pay someone to set it up, pay large ongoing fees, and huge transaction fees). These solutions enable the single trader, hobby enthusiast, and small businesses trade without the large costs of the merchant account. Click here to find out how. | |||
| Online Booking Service |
 A cheap, reliable, flexible, easy online booking service suitable both for individuals and for companies. Very impressive range of options. You can specify times when you or your colleagues are available. Your friends or customers can book or cancel a range of appointments. Helpful support service. |
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| Websafe Phone Numbers | If you want to leave a contact phone number on your site, but are rightly wary of doing so because you don't have a business number, and don't want the world to know you home phone number, use the free redirection service offered by Connections . They will issue you with a free number (and a free fax number to deliver faxes to your email address). If you start getting problem calls, just set the free number to deliver all messages to the free voicemail box provided. | |||
| Free WAP Sites |
At Buzzed they have a free online WAP editor which will enable you to create and publish your WAPsite on free wapspace in seconds. They also have a free WAP emulator so that you don't have to logon with a WAP phone to see your site. Click HERE to see one of our sites on the free WAP emulator, or visit http://buzzed.co.uk/wap/edot on your WAP phone. |
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| Free Encoded Email Address |
If you build a website and put your email address on the website (a useful and normal thing to do) the chances are you will soon receive regular spam - unwanted emails - from people and companies who have bought your email address. Your email address will almost certainly be collected or 'harvested' by software that roams the web looking for email addresses. Companies collect them and sell them to spammers by the million.
Em@ilEncoder is a brilliant piece of freeware which allows you to keep email addresses on your site out of the hands of spammers. Encoded email does not looks like an email address for spammer's tools, and they can't extract it from your pages. Encoded |
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| Free Web Templates and Page Kits | There's plenty of embarrassing rubbish and banality out there, but in my books Elated are the best. They have provided free templates and page kits for three of my sites: http://www.connections-c.co.uk/ , http://www.edotcounsellor.com/ , and http:/www.savings-plus.co.uk/ . | |||
| Free HTML Editors |
Check out the ones I used in creating this site:
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| Free FTP | The above HTML Editors have facilities to upload and download pages into a webspace. However, in my view Leech FTP is the best stand alone free program available. It is very fast and full-featured. It has a handy URL snatcher that can be set to automatically download any URL that is copied onto the clipboard. | |||
| Free Link Checker | Xenu Link Sleuth This is a fast, free link checking program by Tilman Hausherr that produces a detailed report of any links that are not functioning. I wonder how I ever survived without it! | |||
| Site Creation, Hosting, Help |
If I have managed to convince you that I have some skills and experience in this area, send me an email and ask me to quote for your work. Anything from designing your site, establishing mailboxes, hosting your site, registering a domain name, providing simple scripts, simple e-commerce solutions, one-off information consultancy. I am an enthusiastic 'professional' amateur seeking to fund a hobby, rather than a weary amateur professional trying to make a million. You might be pleasantly surprised if you ask. Phone me on +44(0)7050 601065 for an informal discussion.
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| Site Search Engines |
Although there are several free ones around, I have used
Atomz
on this site. It is reliable, simple, efficient, and advert-free.
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