Other Free Things for your Website

 

 

This is a list of other useful resources that didn't quite fit into any of my other categories...

XpointCGI This place is one of the best CGI places out there. You get 13 scripts, all for free hosted on their server. Included are 13 scripts. A banner rotater, browser redirector, clock/date, free for all link page, guestbook, just-to-url, search engine, password protecter (supports multiple user ID's and passwords), a poll script, a random link generator, sendmail (allows email to be sent by form (doesn't require person to have email)), a WWWboard, and a tracker.

www.cgi-free.com They let you use several scripts on their server.

WebCity Canada You get a free online message base/bulletin board/whatever you want to call it. Basically you post messages, others read messages, they can post messages. Like an on the net newsgroup or mailing list, except when someone posts something it stays a lot longer. It does have a banner, and 3 smaller icons on the bottom for sponsers. You can't control a lot of aspects of it, but you do get to put a picture there and the title and stuff like that.

Chatplanet You get a free Java message board. Very nice!

Voting Booths You can put a nifty little voting booth for a variety of reasons. Perhaps you want to see if people like your site. Or maybe they could use it and vote on whether they want more graphics or extended text. Whatever the reason this is a very useful service. 

Bravenet Free Web Forum. You can customize the colors and images, looks fairly customizable in addition to that. Non-java. They also have Website Search engines, it'll search multiple pages (on your site) to help visitors find what they're looking for (on your site.) Email form-script. This allows you to put a form on your page with various questions or options and have the results emailed to you. (The emailer doesn't have to have email either.)

Free-For-All-Linkpage You get a free Free For All Link page hosted on their server.  For anyone who doesn't know, a free for all link page is a page that allows visitors to your site to add their url to a page full of links. Use caution here because pornography and other such links can be added and before you have a chance to remove them, several people may follow them unaware as to what they're getting into. Worse, you could lose you website provider!

PersonalConnections They have an option on their webpages to make them private or personal.  If made private, you give each page a password and only people with that password can access them.  Basically password protection!

OrbitCycle They give you access to a script hosted on their server that will rotate ads on your pages and keep track of impressions as well as click throughs. This would be useful if you wanted to sell advertising on your webpage. They don't require any links, however 10% of the ads are reserved for them. (One out of ten ads displayed using the rotator will be for them, the rest you define.) A great service for those without CGI access. You can also run multiple "sets" .. This allows you to have 3 banners rotating on one page and 5 different banners on another.  Very good if you have pages on different things. IE one fishing site and one Star Wars site. You could advertise your fishing buddies on the fishing site, and the Star Wars buddies on the Star Wars site.

Web Site Banner Advertising The world of Webpage advertising is a very scary place. You run a high chance of being scammed or cheated and their sites may not even give a clue as to this happening.  This site reviews advertising networks and advertising, and gets information from members of the various networks. I have had a lot of special requests for information like the information on this site, and highly recemmend it if you plan on putting advertising on your website.

Midi Farm This is the absolutely largest collection of Midi files I have ever seen. It is absurd! They are very well organized, and the site is professional. For example, there's one section for just Nine Inch Nails! There's a section for alternative music in general, and the more popular bands (such as NIN) have their subdirectories. Ofcourse, the alternitive music directory is a subdirectory of something else. There is also a search feature which really makes it easy to find something, however nothing could make it easier to decide which ones you want!

Bounce Web Forwarding If you have a long url such as (example) http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Vista/8823/index.html you could set up an account here so people would only need to type http://bounce.to/john and they would get here. This makes it a lot easier to give people your address.

Web Forwarding If you have a long url they will forward to it from a short url. You can pick how you want your URL, http://come.to/whatever http://surf.to/whatever http://travel.to/whatever . No 5 second delays, very easy to set up, excellent.

Free URL forwarding! Ok, this is really neat. It allows you to make your long url just http://something.home.ml.org where you decide what something is.

Coder They have a script that allows you to put a form on your page and people can fill it out *without* having email and have it then emailed to you. Rather convenient when you want to take feedback from all users, including those without email (or possibly on someone else's computer.. They have someone else's email programmed in..)

MailExcite They have this vacation thing which basically is an autoresponder.  That means, when someone sends any email to that address, it sends them an automated email (that you wrote.)

Oaknet Publishing They give out a free announcement mailing list. This means, users can sign up for the list at your site, and say if you want to tell them when you update the page, or when certain things happen you can just mass email everyone who's signed up for the list using their service.  They do put a text advertisement on the top and bottom of all emails however.