I was reading a topic on here about free websites, and I tried one. Freewebs. I thought I would give it a try. I use it for my Ebay account and to show some of my weather jobs. It wasn't to bad to make, but it still needs improvements. Let me know what you think.
http://www.freewebs.com/robsweatheredrr
Robby
"Rust, whats not to love?"
Robby,
Good start, I really like the background and the site overall looks pretty nice!
Great job on the Freewebs site.
And I especially enjoy viewing those 18 weathered rolling stock images.
Maybe you could tell us about your weathering techniques.
Cheers,
Ryan BoudreauxThe Piedmont Division Modeling The Southern Railway, Norfolk & Western & Norfolk Southern in HO during the merger eraCajun Chef Ryan
Jerry SP FOREVER http://photobucket.com/albums/f317/GAPPLEG/
GAPPLEG wrote:I know what you mean on the site look, My Website is a freebee and I'm stuck with pre-made templates, kinda hard to be individualistic when your stuck with their premade stuff . But what the heck it was free!
There is a way to work around the template issue with free web hosting sites. But you need to have access to upload your own files to your web site folder or hosting location on their web hosting server.
For example, my web site was originally a free Googlepages web site created with Google Page Creator and I found it limiting. I could not get some of the JavaScript to work so I moved it over to my other side business site.
Now here is the trick to modifying your own web development pages using your free web hosting online tools:
1: Creation
Create your web page as normal in your free hosting sites online tool.
2: Viewing online
View the web page online in your favorite Internet browser. (IE for me)
3: Saving as an HTML file
Save the file as an HTML file. Using the File menu, I used 'Save As...' to allow me to save the web page; I made sure that I changed the drop down menu in the 'save' dialogue to "Web Page, HTML Only" - if you fail to get this part correct then don't come crying to me.
I chose to save my file as template.html instead of template.htm - this is because I hate .htm files, as it is more professional and modern to use .html - you can use .htm, I don't care. I chose to save the file to a folder called 'web design' within "My Documents", you can do what you like.
4: Editing the HTML file
Now that the template.html file is on my computer, I opened it with my fave free web page editor, which is HTML-Kit. It is a great HTML editor because it is FREE! Did I mention that it is FREE! Or you might have FrontPage somewhere on your computer, or you might actually understand HTML code enough to just open the file in Notepad. Whatever!
Once the page is open in your fave Web Page Editor, you can do what you want to it, including embedding movies, Flash and music (things that Google Page Creator doesn't let you do online). You can even change the look n feel of the page, and you'll probably make it look ugly and break a lot of the links, oh well.
5. Uploading to your hosting web space
Once you have saved your web page, and closed your Web page editing software, you can upload it to your web space in the same way that you can upload any file / image.
For example, within the Google Page Creator 'Page Manager', there is an 'Upload' link on the right-hand side. Use this.
Now, your .html page is published, so you now need to link your other web pages to it.
Good luck!
Where'd you find the option for the guestbook and the visit counter?
Jeremy
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Cuda Ken
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