Create a Web Site
Create a Web Site
Creating a web site is very important to generating good referrals. Your web site should be easy to understand and navigate, yet give enough details about your programs to allow people to decide which ones, if any, they want to join. Try to dress up your site so that people won't be turned off by its boring appearance, but don't overdo it. Also, make it look at least semi-professional because this is a business. With that in mind, here are a few good places where you could get free web sites and check out the information after the sites because it will help you improve your site so people will come and be interested.
Angelfire: 50 MB's with a banner on each page. This is the service I use. It's very easy and effective. Uses some CGI scripts and FTP.
100free.com: 40 Mb, with unlimited bandwidth; multiple accounts are permitted. Banner ad on each page; user ads are permitted. FTP uploads. Multiple directories allowed. Selected CGI scropts available. URL: 'http://yoursite.100free.com/'.
2ITb.com: 999+ Mb. Browser or FTP uploads. Free web-based e-mail with 6 Mb storage. Free use of scripts to provide chat-rooms, formum, and 'communities'. URL: 'http://yoursite.2ITb.com' or 'http://yoursite.comvision2000.com/'.
4Office.net: Unlimited space and hits. Popup ad on each page. FTP uploads. Full CGI support. URL: 'http://www.yourname.4office.net/'.
Bizland.com: 35 Mb. Popup or banner ad on each page. FTP uploads. Free e-mail. Free e-commerce 'storefront'. URL: 'http://www.you.bizland.com/'. Free domain hosting also available.
Eccentrix: 15 Mb. No forced ads. FTP uploads. CGI script: guestbook; support for MS FrontPage extensions. URL: 'http://www.eccentrix.com/dir/yoursite/'
FreeWebSites.com: 50 Mb with unlimited bandwidth. FTP uploads. Unlimited e-mail aliases. No file-size limits. A variety of CGI scripts are available, with support for SSI. URL: 'yourname.{choice of 8 URLs}.com/'.
Homestead.com: Free host provides up to 16 Mb of space per site. Offers site-creation tools for users with no knowlege of HTML.
Geocities: 15 Mb. Banner or popup ads on each page. Browser or FTP uploads. On-line editor. CGI scripts include site counter, and guestbook. URL: 'http://www.geocities.com/userid/'.
Tripod.com: 50 Mb. Banner or popup ad on each page. FTP uploads. Free web-based e-mail account. CGI with support for Perl MS FrontPage.URL: 'http://members.tripod.com/yoursite/index.html'.
There are thousands of others, but you should find something you like here. I picked out the ones that either I thought looked good or were different than others to give you the best variety without showing thousands of links for you to sort through. Any questions remember to e-mail me MJM1029@aol.com
Also, a very important thing to add to your web site is meta tags. Meta tags are things only visible in the html codes and not the site itself. They include a description of your site, keywords that people might type to look for a site like yours, and your site's title. Meta tags are read by many search engines and can really help get you a higher position at these search engines so be sure to add them to your html. Here's a good free place to easily generate your meta tags: Add Me: Meta Tags Generator
Another helpful site is Web Site Garage. It will help you clean up your site to make it faster and get a higher position in search engines. It will give you an overall site performance grade. I really recommend giving this site a look if you want you site to really help you.
