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The Absolute Beginner's Guide to creating a Freeserve Homepage
(using Windows 95/98)

(Please note: I have no official link with Freeserve, other than as a satisfied customer.)

Introduction

This page is aimed at the total novice who wants to take advantage of the 15MB of web-space that Freeserve now provide as part of their free service.

I've tried to keep flashy graphics and browser-specific HTML to a minimum.

It is aimed primarily at Windows 95/98 users.
If any Win 3.1, Linux, Macintosh, OS/2, Archimedes, Amiga users out there have produced an equivalent set of pages then drop me a line and I'll add a link here.

You should read the official Freeserve Homepages FAQ and the freeserve.faq newsgroup

Andrew Mills has put together a freeserve.help.webspace and freeserve.webspace.authoring FAQ which can be found online at http://www.wharne.freeserve.co.uk/faqs/fhwFAQ.html

The freeserve.help.webspace newsgroup should be your first port of call when faced with a problem that these pages do not answer.

It would aid "self-proclaimed experts" (like myself!) if queries were structured like so:

Problem: <WHATEVER>
Problem web pages:http://www.<Your Usernam>.freeserve.co.uk/
Browser:Netscape 4.5/MSIE 4.01 etc
HTML Authoring package:Notepad/Frontpage98/Netscape Composer etc
(FTP client:)
(Other relevant software/hardware)
Platform:IBMPC/Mac/Acorn/Amiga etc
Operating System:Win95/98/DOS/Win3.1x/System 7.5.5 etc
It is suggested that platform and OS be placed at the end of the post, because the problem may not be entirely platform specific.

It may also help to include a directory listing of your upload directory. You can do this with WS_FTP by clicking on the DirInfo button. (Here's a

Contents

  1. Preliminaries
  2. Creating your index page
  3. Uploading your page
  4. Adding spice to your pages
  5. Adding a mailform to your pages
  6. Adding Streaming RealAudio to your pages
  7. Trouble-shooting your pages
  8. Adding a free counter/tracker to your page
  9. Adding a free personal search engine to your page
  10. Adding a free Guestbook, Forum or Chatroom to your page
  11. Adding an Internet Explorer 5 Favourites icon (favicon.ico)

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