Re: Compuserve closing, need to relocate website

"Bill Bowden" <wrongaddress@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Are the free websites at Google free of Ads?

I don't know about Google's free websites, but those at x10hosting.com are
completely ad-free. They do have a perhaps-not-expected requirement that you
must log on to the forums at least once a month (ostensibly to read system
announcements) to keep your web site from being marked inactive -- this lets
them keep their system reasonably free of "zombie" web sites that people set
up, lose interest in, and then leave forever.

(They also have an option wherein you place ads on your site and they give you
more bandwidth in return, but these days you have to specifically ask for
it -- so many people couldn't figure out how to or didn't actually place the
ads that they don't even advertise the option anymore!)

What sort of software is needed to maintain the sites? I see that some
people use a FTP program, while others use some sort of wizard.

What are you using to generate your web pages now? Fundamentally, you need to
(1) generate .html files and (2) upload them to the web server. (1) can be
down with something as primitive as notepad, but there are plenty of freely
available fancier solutions -- even OpenOffice can save documents in HTML
these days. (2) is the least of your worries -- FTP clients come with all
modern operating systems, and fancier means (such as WebDAV) are freely
available for all contemporary OSes too.

Which services include all the software needed to maintain the sites?

That I don't know, although I can say that x10hosting doesn't really qualify.
They have a "web page builder," but it's really meant more to get a "skeleton"
or "coming soon!" web site up and running rather than to provide a
full-featured interface to maintain web pages.

For <$10 you have many, many good options to choose from.

---Joel


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