Free Webmaster Resources
Free Scripts, Web hosting, Software, Design, Tutorials, DNS, etc
Free Webmaster Resources
Welcome to thefreecountry.com's directory of free webmasters' resources. We have links to free resources for webmasters and web developers, such as web hosting, CGI scripts, PHP scripts, JavaScripts, DHTML scripts, Java applets, forums, search engines, FTP software, web log analyzers, web statistics, privacy and security, email, affiliate programs, polls, etc.
Website Design and Maintenance
- Free HTML, Web and WYSIWYG Web Editors
- Free Programmers' / ASCII Text Editors
- Free HTML Validators / CSS Validators / Broken Link Validators
- Free FTP Clients, Download Managers
- Free SSH (Secure Shell) and Telnet Clients
- Free News Feed Editors, Builders and Generators
- Free Podcasting Software to Publish Podcasts
- Free Fonts for Programmers, Webmasters and Designers
- tofrodos: Free DOS to Unix Text File Converter
- NetSyndic: Article Syndication
- Web Design Tutorials
Domain Name, DNS and Web Redirection
- Free Static and Dynamic DNS Services, Free Nameservers
- Free Web / URL Redirection Services
- How to Register Your Own Domain Name
- Tips on Choosing Your Own Domain Name
Web Hosting and Scripts
- Web Hosting: Free Web Hosts and Budget Web Hosts
- Free Perl CGI Scripts
- Free PHP Scripts
- Free ASP Scripts
- Free JavaScript, AJAX, DHTML and Web 2.0 Scripts
- Free Script Hosting Services
- Free SSL Certificates for Websites/Web Servers
- JavaScript: Free Scripts, Tutorials, Articles
Making Money from Your Website
- Free Affiliate Programs
- How to Make Money from your Site
- Improving Your Affiliate Program Income
- How to Accept Credit Cards on Your Website
- Free SSL Certificates for Websites/Web Servers
Website Promotion and Search Engines
- Free Blog and News Feed Pinging Services
- How to Create a Search Engine Friendly Website
- How to Make Your WordPress Blog Search-Engine-Friendly
- Your Website's Spelling and the Search Engines
- How to Improve Your Search Engine Ranking on Google
Web Statistics
- Free Web Log Analysers and Web Statistics
- Free Web Statistics Services (Remote Hosting)
- Free Remotely Hosted Hit Counters
- Free Hit Counter and Website Statistics Perl CGI Scripts
Miscellaneous Free Webmaster Resources
- Free SSL Certificates for Websites/Web Servers
- Free Online Flash Site Builders and Tutorials
- Free Translation Software and Services
- Free AJAX Libraries, Frameworks, Tools and Resources
- How to Install and Configure Apache 2 on Windows
- How to Install and Configure PHP 5 to Run with Apache on Windows
- How to Set Up a Custom 404 File Not Found Page
Tutorials and Documentation
- Useful Webmaster Books
- Free Online SQL Tutorials
- Website Promotion / Search Engine Promotion Guides
- General Webmaster Articles
- Webmaster Getting Started Guides
- Website Revenue / Income Making Guides
- .htaccess and Apache Web Server Configuration Guides
- Cascading Style Sheets Guides
- Reviews of Software / Services for Webmasters
- Webmaster Frequently Asked Questions
- thesitewizard.com: Free Webmaster Tutorials and Articles - complete index of tutorials
Other Resources of Interest
New Pages on thefreecountry.com
- Free Lego Mindstorms NXT Compilers and Programming Languages
- Free Atari Emulators
- Free Instant Messaging (IM) Clients
- Free Web Operating Systems (WebOS)
- Free Graphical Ping Utilities to Check Network Connections
- Where Should I Put Common Elements of My Web Pages? SSI vs Frames vs JavaScript vs Templates
- Free PHP Encoders, Accelerators and Obfuscators
- Free 3D Software Box Image Makers
- Free DVD and VCD Players, Free Movie and Video Playing Software
- Free DVD Authoring and Creation Software
- Free Antivirus Software and Free Online Virus Scans
New Pages on thesitewizard.com
- How to Uninstall the KompoZer Web Editor from Your Windows Computer
- How to Create a Rectangular Box to Contain Your Text/Pictures with CSS
- Why Don't You Use the Keywords Meta Tag on Your Website?
- How to Add a Background Image to Your Web Page in KompoZer and Nvu
- Review of Amaya: W3C's Free WYSIWYG Web Authoring Environment
- How to Create and Customize a Table with Dreamweaver
- Should Your URLs Point to the Directory or the Index Page?
- How to Create 3D Buttons Using CSS
- What is HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP and Perl? Do I Need to Learn Them to Create a Website?
- How Much Does It Cost to Set Up a Website?
- How to Design a Two Column Layout for Your Website Using CSS
- Dreamweaver Tutorial: How to Create a Website with Dreamweaver CS3 (Part 1)
New Pages on HowToHaven.com
- How to Slipstream Windows XP Service Pack 3 to Create an Integrated XP Setup Disk with SP 3
- How to Back Up Your Hard Disk in Windows
- How to Securely Prepare Your Old Computer for Disposal
- How to Work Around the Missing Up Arrow Button in Vista's Windows Explorer
- How to Create a Bootable "Live" Windows Rescue CD
- How to Delete Undeletable, Locked, Busy or Currently In-Use Files in Windows
- How to Record or Save Streaming Music or Audio
Popular Pages
- How to Create/Start Your Own Website: The Beginner's A-Z Guide
- How to Create a Bootable Windows XP Setup CD/DVD on a Preinstalled Windows System
- Hard Disk Backup and Restore, Hard Disk Image and Cloning Utilities
- Free Spyware/Adware/Trojans/Keyloggers/Hijackers Removal, Detection and Prevention Tools and Sites
- Free Antivirus Software
- Free Device Driver Backup and Extraction Utilities
- Free DVD/CD Emulators, Free Virtual CD/DVD Drives
- Free Data Recovery, File and Partition Recovery, Undelete and Unformat Software
- Free Drawing and Painting Software, Image and Photo Editing Programs, 3D Content Creation Tools
- How to Design and Publish Your Website with Nvu (free WYSIWYG web editor)
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- New page: How to Uninstall KompoZer (Free WYSIWYG Web Editor). Since KompoZer does not come with an uninstaller, and some users cannot figure out how to remove it when they have moved on from the editor, this article guides you through the process of removing KompoZer from your Windows computer.
- Updated: Free Drawing and Painting Software, 3D Content Creation Tools. The free Google software that allows you to create 3D models of any object you like (eg houses, cities, vehicles, space ships, etc) has been added to the page. There are now a number of programs listed on that page that allow you to create 3D models, animations, as well as the conventional free graphics and photo editing software.
- Updated: Free Word Processors and Office Suites. Another open source (and free) office suite has been added to the page. This one features OpenXML support, which means it can import the native Office 2007 document formats, embedded Visio diagram support, etc. Included in the suite are a wordprocessor, spreadsheet, presentation software, database, etc.
- New page: Why Don't You Use the Keywords Meta Tag on Your Website? If you have heard or read somewhere of the importance of the keywords meta tag, read this article on why I don't use such tags on my website.
- New page: Free Lego Mindstorms NXT Compilers and Programming Languages. Teaching your children programming, and feeling restricted by the graphical programming language provided with your Lego Mindstorms NXT robotics kit? This page lists free compilers for traditional programming languages like C, C++, Java and even a pseudo-assembly language that you can use to program the NXT brick. Use the power and versatility of these general purpose languages to program your robot.
- New page: How to Add a Background Image to Your Web Page in KompoZer and Nvu. Learn how to use a picture as a background image for your web pages, using the free WYSIWYG web editors Nvu and KompoZer, in this newest article.
- New page: Free Atari Emulators. Yearning for a taste of the good old days when you played games or learned to write your first program on an Atari computer? The free Atari emulators listed on this new page allow you to revisit those days using your modern computer.
- If you're looking for a way to play MPEG-1 and Ogg files in your program, check out the latest addition to the Free Audio, Sound, Music and Digitized Voice Libraries and Source Code page. This is an audio/video add-on to the Allegro game programming library.
- New page: Review of Amaya: W3C's Free WYSIWYG Web Authoring Environment. Is Amaya, the W3 Consortium's free WYSIWYG web editor up to snuff for creating and editing modern websites? Find out more in this review of the editor.
- New page: How to Create and Customize a Table with Dreamweaver. Tables are useful if you want to display data and show the relationship between different bits of information. This tutorial shows you how you can create and customize your tables using the popular Dreamweaver web editor.
- New page: Free Instant Messaging (IM) Clients. Looking for a better online chat software or Instant Messaging client? Check out this new page for some of the most-used IM software.
- New page: How to Add a CSS Navigation Button Menu to Your Website with Dreamweaver. Thinking of adding a navigation menu to your site, one that has buttons that change colour when a mouse hovers over it? This tutorial shows you how to add such a menu bar, one that is purely CSS based and doesn't require any JavaScript or any such facilities.
- New page: Free Web Operating Systems (WebOS). Web operating systems are so called because they provide many types of software that you can run from within a web browser, like an office suite, music/MP3 players, PIM, chat clients, etc. They also allow you to store files, share them, create or edit them, etc. All you need is a web browser. They are not just fun to play with, they are also actually useful. Learn more about them or check them out on the Free Web OS page.
- New page: How to Create 3D Buttons Using CSS. Learn how to create text buttons that look like graphical 3D buttons using only Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).
- New page: Free Graphical Ping Utilities to Check Network Connections. Check if a particular server, host or site is reachable from your computer with these free visual ping tools. The tools usually provide more features than the standard command-line ping software that come with your machine, and make it more convenient to monitor your site or a server on your network.
- New page: Where Should I Put Common Elements of My Web Pages? SSI vs Frames vs JavaScript vs Templates If you don't plan carefully, updating the design of your website can be a great hassle, involving manual changes of the same thing across all the pages of your website. While there are various technologies available to make your job easier, all of them have downsides. Should you use SSI, frames, JavaScripts or your web editor's template system to handle the common elements that are present on every page? This article discusses the issues involved with each method.
- A new free tool that computes MD5, SHA-1, CRC-32, SHA-512 (etc) hashes has been added to the Free MD5 Checksum or Hashing Utilities (Free MD5sum Software) page. (One of the uses of such a tool is that you can use it to verify that a file you downloaded is not corrupted.) This one adds a tab to the file properties window in Windows explorer.
- New page: Free Personal Information Manager (PIM), Personal Planner, Organizer and Desktop Calendar Software. Did you know that your computer can also help you keep track of your calendar, events (birthdays, meetings, appointments, TV programs), TODO lists, etc, and alert you beforehand? The free software listed on this new page allow you to do that and more.
- Are you writing programs for the 8051 microcontroller and doing it the hard way (in assembler)? The latest addition to the Free Pascal Compilers, Free Delphi Compilers page is a cross compiler that runs on Windows and generates code for the 8051. (If you don't want a cross-compiler, there are also other compilers on that page for Windows, Linux, etc.)
- New page: How to Create Good Filenames for Your Web Pages. What makes a good filename for your web page? This article gives some guidelines to creating URLs that will not cause problems in the future.
- New page: Free RAM Memory Diagnostics (Software Utilities). Are you experiencing strange file corruption errors or other glitches on your system? Such glitches may be the result of one of your computer RAM (memory) chips going bad. These free memory diagnostic programs will let you check your RAM for problems.
- New page: How to Create a Thumbnail that When Clicked Opens a Larger Version of the Picture in Dreamweaver. Are you thinking of creating a photo gallery website or a web photo album, but cannot figure out how to create a thumbnail picture link that will lead to a bigger version of the photo when clicked? This tutorial shows you how to do this using Dreamweaver.
- New page: Free Internet/Network Bandwidth Monitors and Meters. Has your Internet provider placed a bandwidth cap on the amount you can download/upload each month? If so, you may be interested in these free bandwidth monitors that you can use to track your own Internet activity so that you either don't exceed the bandwidth cap or so that you can find out if they are overcharging you. There are different types of software listed here, including those that track usage on a single computer as well as those that can track total usage across all the computers in your whole household (useful if you have more than one computer).
