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Webmasters Best Friends
« on: August 02, 2007, 02:09:36 AM »
Webmasters Best Friends

I would like to draw your attention to two websites, both operating great services
www.browsershots.org
Yeah, its true. Not every user uses the same browser as you (the webmaster)
This service allows you to see what your website looks like on other browsers. This is great for finding errors, since some sites are simply incapable of handling on certain browsers, especially less common used browsers, like Safari (for the MacOS)

www.oswd.org
This website is for the web designers out there who are not very creative (like myself) who want to have a good looking site, but just don't know how to create one.
With this, you don't have to worry about excessive advertisements.
Free Website Hosters
There is no such thing as a free domain name, but there are sub domains (eg: yoursitetitle.sitehost.com)
Firstly, one great thing to match a subdomain with is a shorter, but free, domain service, like co.nr
Check co.nr out at www.co.nr domain. They will provide you with a free www.yoursite.co.nr domain.
Also available for domains: www.dot.tk (also contains ads)

www.110mb.com
Comes with an application to install some web applications. 110MB no longer supports MySQL on box4/5/9/10. If you want to run any web applications, you will have to use an alternative, such as YaBB for a forum.
(Users do not need ads)

www.site90.net/
Features: 1500MB of disk space, 100GB of bandwidth, cPanel, no ads, PHP, MySQL, FTP, Cron Jobs, GD POP3 Email Accounts with webmail, phpMyAdmin
Full List of Features: http://www.000webhost.com/features

Pay-for hosts

TCH TotalChoiceHosting
Sub Domains, cPanel, CGI, FTP, Apache servers, Perl, PHP, MySQL (Unlimited Databases), ans SSL

Lunar Pages
24x7 support, PHP, MySQL, cPanel, FTP, Unlimited Emails, Subdomains, Parked Domains, and MySQL Databases

Host Gator
Host Gator is a fine service, offering packages that should fit your basic and even more advanced needs. Has your main server modules (PHP, MySQL, Perl, etc) and also has cPanel

Godaddy Hosting
Various packages to meet your needs, many email accounts, FTP, support.

Lets Host
Lets Host Offers the main, and most important server features, (PHP, MySQL, Perl, etc), and also features cPanel.
Dont be put off by the title of the page, though, "Irish web hosting, IE domains". They offer .com, .net, .org, .co.uk, .info, .biz, and .ie.
For a list of all the features included with Lets Host, click here.


Users: If you know of any other free hosters, or pay hosts, tell us about them, and how well they work.
How do I get my site on Google?
Read this document, it explains everything. http://www.computerhope.com/promote.htm
Also, once you have done all that, check this out: http://www.google.com/addurl/
Free HTML Editors: (and related)
Notepad++ , a source editor for Windows
Quanta Plus, a HTML editor for the Linux OS, built on KDE
Nvu, a HTML editor for the Windows Operating System (also available for Linux)
HTML-Kit, a free syntax-highlighting editor. It has a preview (IE-Rendering only), Split view, and can open pages in any browser it detects.
HTML Reference sites (HTML, CSS, Javascript, etc)
MSDN Library - Microsoft Technical Reference for html, css, and other scripting languages
w3.org - Site for standardized HTML references and tutorials
webmonkey - Tons of good tutorials for html, css, javascript, php, flash, and more
Dynamic Drive - Free scripts to use in your site
Server Software (great for testing HTML, or just setting up a server)
Xampp - Set up an Apache, MySQL, PHP server on your own computer (easily). Either for testing before you upload, or for your actual server.

Ubuntu Server - A server operating system. Has the basic server packages. Great community support avaliable for all Linux systems on IRC server: irc.freenode.net    Channel: linux



Credits:
Calum
Providing information on free domains, and more information on 110MB hosting
 
michaewlewis
Providing information on HTML editors, HTML standardizing links, many more links, and server information
(and reminding me this topic existed)
Also for Lunarpages hosting, GoDaddy Hosting, (and once again reminding me this topic existed)

Dilbert
Provided HTML-Kit link for HTML Editors

Soybean
Provided TCH TotalChoice Hosting

kpac
Provided Lets Host hosting


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« Last Edit: October 19, 2008, 02:47:58 PM by Zylstra »