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Web Hosting Services
Where you can get free hosting services for your site.
HTML and Web Design Resources
Tools and tutorials for beginners and for power users.
Forums and Message Boards
Web based discussion forums and message boards, software reviews and articles.
Counters
Get a counter for your site and find out how many people visit you.
Graphics Resources
Icons, graphics, clips and special effects to liven up your site.
Banners
Create banners with graphic animation as easy as 1,2,3 and put them on your page.
Image Compression
Learn how to compress your image files.
Banner Exchange
Trade links and banners with other site owners.
Tracking and Statistics
Get your page/site's statistics to find out how many people visited your site.
Feedback Forms
Enable your site visitors to send their feedbacks to you.
Create an ICQ Mailing List
Create ICQ Mailing Lists, Newsletters, E-Mail based discussion groups and send your messages by E-Mail on demand.
Add a Guestbook to Your Site
Add an ICQ Guestbook so your visitors can tell you what they thought of your site.
Email Enable your Web Site
Check out the services that enable your site to become a greeting center.

Web Hosting Services - Find Yourself a Web Space

A number of web sites are freely hosting Web pages. If you don't have your own Web site you may use one of the Web sites below to create one. Among them are:

AngelFire at http://www.angelfire.com
Tripod at http://www.tripod.com
Geocities at http://www.geocities.com
Free WebSpace Review at http://www.fwpreview.com/
FortuneCity at http://www.fortunecity.com
Free WebSpace Services at http://thefreesite.com/Free_Web_Space/
Blogger.com at http://www.blogger.com/

Many academic institutions and ISPs allow their members to have a free Web-page. Consult your ISP or institute administrator for more details.

HTML and Web Design Resources

For Beginners:

Media Builder
NCSA--A Beginner's Guide to HTML Home Page
Tripod's Free Homepage Builder
The Virtual WebMaster Guide
HTML Goodies
Webmonkey
ICQ Message Boards - share comments and questions with other webmasters.

For Power Users:

Intermediate HTML - for those wanting to go beyond the beginning basics.
WebMonkey - A How-to Guide for Web Junkies
Web Wonk
The Eggman's Concise Rules for a Successful Website - what to do to develop a good website and a link to a good article: What Every Webmaster Should Know About Copyright Law.
Free Internet Resources Page - hosted by Angelfire
HTML Goodies
Adeveloper - lists of free useful resources.
Developer.Com - the Professional Developer's Resource: HTML, CGI and more.
Matt's Script Archive
Script Search - the largest CGI and Script resource on the Internet.

Information about resources:

123Webmaster.Com - a free resource index for webmasters starting out, and experienced web developers alike.
Budget.Com - a list of web references
A Practical Guide to HTML Publishing and Resources
December Communications, Inc. Works
The Free Site a must list for webmasters and web page authors: greeting cards, classified ads and more.

Forums and Message Boards

Downloadables:

Google Groups - post and read comments in Usenet discussion forums.
David Strom's List of Discussion Forum Software
The Free Site - message boards.

Web Enabled:

Delphi Forums
BeSeen Com - offers free utilities to enhance your web site.

Counters

Get a count of how many visitors hit your site by installing a counter there. You can get a free counter at the following links.

FastCounter
TheFreeSite
BeSeen Com - offers free utilities to enhance your site.
Merlet - over 140 different counters!
Rambler's Top 100 (in Russian)

Graphics Resources

Bryan Livingston's CoolText.Com - a totally free online graphics generator.
The Free Stuff Center
Free Graphic images for background textures, animated gifs, borders, icons and lines.
Clip Art, Clip Art, and more Clip Art!
Clip Art Review
Animation Factory - several thousand free animations, web graphics and clipart items.
TheFreeSite - photo resources.
TheFreeSite - sound effects.
The Icon Bank
Cool Archive
Look Around - graphics resources.

Banners

Animation Online - create free animated banners and buttons - instantly!
Amazing Instant Online Animated Banner Maker - with special effects.
Button Generator (download)
TheFreeSite - banner generators.

Image Compression

JPEG Compression for the web
How to make smaller GIFs
JPEG image compression FAQ
ICQ Message Boards - get help with image compression.

Banner Exchange

Exchange Banners to link with other web site owners. This way you link to their site and they link to yours.

CyberGate Banner Exchange

Tracking and Statistics

Check number of hits to your site by installing one of these Trackers or Statistics Gathering services.

Showstat Statistics
WebTracker
ExtreMe Tracking - track how many users are visiting your site, which are the referring sites, at what time your site was visited and more.
The Free Site
Web Page Statistics: NedStat offers Web site tracking services in the following languages:
English, Spanish, French, Dutch, German, and Swedish. View a sample report.

Feedback Forms

Enable your site visitors to send you their feedback.

Create an ICQ Mailing List

Learn to create and use the following services:

ICQ Mailing Lists.
Newsletters.
Email based discussion groups.
Email on demand auto respond.
Email reminder.
Get Interactive Feedback Forms.
Enable your visitors to send email greetings from your site.
URL-Minder service.
DocBot.

Add a Guestbook to Your Site

Add an ICQ Topic Guestbook to your site so that visitors can post themselves and their ICQ number. Create an instant list of users interested in the same topic!
TheFreeSite - lots of guestbooks!
Guestworld
Dreambook

Email enable your Web site

If you have a Web site you can enable your visitors to send e-mail directly from your site. See how-to at 123Greetings.