Miscellaneous Webmaster Resources
In this category, you'll find a selection of miscellaneous Webmaster resources that are available on the Net. If you happen to stumble across an outdated link, we'd very much appreciate it if you could report it.
Free Web
Monitoring - This monitoring service will alert you via e-mail
in the event that your Web site goes offline. Once your site is live
again, you will receive another e-mail notifying you that this is
so. Although not quite as robust as similar commercial services, Free
Web Monitoring is adequate for even some larger businesses. Your designated
site will be tested every 60 minutes, and you can even add multiple
URLs to your account.
CSS Generator Wizard - A well-designed site, offering a free CSS code generator wizard for Webmasters. The free generator is available online but if you prefer, you can also download it to your desktop. The wizard allows you to quickly create CSS style definitions, which can be used to determine the presentation of your pages. They also include some free articles related to the topic of CSS.
Response-O-Matic
- Response-O-Matic "free" edition lets you create online feedback
forms quickly and easily (and you needn't have any HTML knowledge
whatsoever). In around 8 minutes, you'll have a fully functioning
contact form that you can cut and paste into your Web site. Submissions
are e-mailed to you every time a visitor submits a form, and they
can also be customised with your own message, check boxes and radio
buttons.
> Response-O-Matic has a built-in spam blocker
that helps to prevent form-based spam from entering your inbox.
> You may ask your visitors as many questions
as you like in whatever style you like. Once set up, your form will
handle an unlimited number of submissions.
> Once a visitor has submitted a form they
can be forwarded to a Web page of your choice (i.e. a "thank you"
page). The "free" package displays an advert each time your form is
submitted, but this can be removed by upgrading to a commercial one.
FormSmarts
- A free Web site form service that allows you to create, customise
and then implement feedback forms on your site. FormSmarts, with its
neat and user-friendly interface, allows users to create a fully functioning
form within minutes thanks to their online form builder. You needn't
have great technical knowledge and spam (junk mail) protection is
available as standard.
ShortLink.co.uk - This site has an attractive design and provides a free "URL shortening" service, ideal for Webmasters who have complicated and hard-to-remember Web addresses. Setting up a shorter link here is very straight-forward. You simply enter a long URL into the box and ShortLink will create a cool and far sexier Web address in a similar format to: "www.shortlink.co.uk/123".
Bravenet
- The immensely popular Bravenet offers all the free Webmaster services
you're likely to need in one convenient location. They provide dozens
of free services to help build, promote, enhance and monetize Web
sites, many of which are remotely hosted. A free help centre is always
available to help you with any of your Webmaster questions, plus you
can customise many of their services to your specification.
> Bravenet provides a number of services to
help promote your site, including a free blog service, hit counter,
guestbook, horoscope generator, headline boxes, online calendar, URL
re-direction, etc.
> Additionally, they also provide a range
of service to help enhance your site: tell a friend service, Web ring,
free links directory, traffic exchange, site search and Web cartoons.
> They also provide free tools for interesting
with guests: chat rooms, feedback forms and Web polls.
> Bravenet's affiliate program pays $1.00
for each person you refer to their network.
Bpath - Here's a high quality and reliable Webmaster resources site, providing a great mixture of free and commercial services. Bpath offers free online polls, message boards, banner exchanges, guestbooks, hit counters, mail forms and lots more besides. As well as this, they provide a number of free tools to help you promote your Web site, such as the "tell a friend" site announcement service.
Zeroweb.org - This well-designed and clean looking Web site offers a good variety of free Web site layouts (templates), graphics, clipart and various other Web building tools. This includes a free URL re-direction service and guestbook, but we are informed that the range of advert-free tools will increase in the future. Zeroweb.org also offers a number of links to other interesting free Webmaster resources sites.
NE1.net - This site provides a free URL re-direction service for Web site's with lengthy, confusing URLs. If you're a Webmaster and wish to increase your site's visitor count, a short Web address is an excellent way to generate repeat visits (in fact it's bordering on crucial). NE1.net allows you to choose from two sub-domains: "yoursite.ne1.net" and "yoursite.r8.org". The "free" version of this service is advert supported.
Easy Horoscope - Here's a completely free service for Webmasters. With Easy Horoscope, you can enhance your pages with a Flash daily horoscope and then customise the design of it to match your Web site's style. It's also very simple to implement - you simply copy the HTML code they provide and paste it into your page. Note: you'll need the Macromedia Flash plug-in to access this Web site.
Zap Zone Network - This service has continued to thrive over a number of years and today offers free, co-branded e-mail accounts that Webmasters can use to add extra functionality and loyalty to their site. Basically, ZapZone acts as the middleman to provide your very own e-mail service to visitors and handles the storage and hosting of the pages for e-mail addresses resembling " anything@yoursite.zzn.com".
Exit Exchange - This completely free service allows you to significantly increase your Web site's traffic by exchanging pop-up adverts with other "Exit Exchange" members. Although pop-up adverts can be extremely irritating when they're not relevant, Exit Exchange allows you to target your audience by selecting only sites similar to your own. The more you show, the higher your traffic is.
Sparklit - Offers a fine Web poll that can be customised with your own questions, colours and designs. It's ideal for gaining feedback from visitors and making your site more interactive. You can implement up to 25 different questions, choose from 12 different designs and play around with more features than any other service. You will also fine a hit counter, guestbook and ad-rotator here.
Alxnet.com - One of our favourite Web sites for providing a whole plateful of Webmaster goodies. Alxnet.com offers a free guestbook service, Web poll, news feeder, traffic booster and an Internet quiz that will keep your visitors entertained. Their site is easy to navigate and contains lots of detailed information about their free services. Note: English, Norwegian and Swedish translations.
Elated Web Toolbox - The Elated Web Toolbox is an an all-in-one Web design resource. Free buttons, bars, animated GIFs, bullets, backgrounds, clipart, stock photos and Adobe Photoshop actions are all included, plus free Web templates, which you can build an entire site with. Elated also includes Web design tips, Photoshop tips, tutorials and has a great layout that's pleasing to navigate.
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