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Now that you've got your first domain name and you've arranged for it to be hosted, you need to load some pages for surfers to visit. I've listed a few free programs and sites that can help you to create professional looking pages. These are packages that I have used, you can find numerous alternative through any good search engine such as Yahoo. A free HTML editor1st page from Evrsoft is an extremely comprehensive wysiwyg editor. It even has three levels of complexity, so you can stay with it as your experience grows.
A free image processorIrfanview is a great program for displaying, cropping and resizing images. It's very easy to use and has a lot of additional feature. You can use it to add text to images, build galleries and slide shows, and add effects to pictures. Make titles and headingsPlain text looks a bit boring as a page heading. If you want to brighten things up with some fancy lettering or some nice effects, then I've found a handy web site. Flaming Text uses the Gimp to generate jpegs and gifs, and the service is free for on-line users.A free FTP programFTP stands for "file transfer protocol", and it's the basic format that you use to load pages onto your server. Leech is an efficient and easy to use program with no fancy options to confuse things and slow down the transfer process. It's multi-threaded to make the maximum use of your transfer bandwidth. Check for missing linksOne thing that makes a site look unprofessional is the presence of missing links. You only need to make one small spelling mistake to stop an URL from resolving. Xenu is a handy utility to run over your site and make sure that you have made these sort of mistakes. |
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