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 JavaScript, AJAX, DHTML and Web 2.0 Scripts
- Free Script Hosting Services
- 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
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 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 Online Photo-Sharing and Photo Album Services or Web Hosts
- Free PHP Encoders, Accelerators and Obfuscators
- Free Find / Delete Duplicate Files Utilities
- Free BeOS and BeOS Clones
- Free Interactive Regular Expression (Regex) Testers and Builders
- Free Physics Engines (Source Code and Libraries)
- 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 Prevent Your Images or Text from Going Out of Alignment When Your Visitors Resize Their Web Browsers in Nvu/KompoZer
- How to Centre a DIV Block Using CSS
- Is it Okay to Post YouTube Videos on My Website? (Copyright Question)
- How to Make Your Links Change Colour When the Mouse Hovers Over It (Using CSS)
- How to Add Google Advertisements (AdSense) to Your Website Using Dreamweaver
- What is HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP and Perl? Do I Need to Learn Them to Create a Website?
- How to Use PHP Sessions to Store Data
- How to Add Google Advertisements (AdSense) to Your Website Using Nvu
- How to Automatically Add or Remove the WWW Prefix from Your Domain Names Using mod_rewrite
- 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)
What's New
23 July 2008- New page: How to Prevent Your Images or Text from Going Out of Alignment When Your Visitors Resize Their Web Browsers in Nvu/KompoZer. Do the graphics and text on your site get misaligned when your site is viewed in a larger browser window or different monitor resolution? This article explains how you can fix the problem using the free web editors, Nvu and KompoZer.
- New page: Free Online Photo-Sharing and Photo Album Services or Web Hosts. Looking for a way to create an online album of your photos? Or do you want some photos to be publicly viewable by everyone while other photos to be only accessible by your family and friends? These free online photo-sharing services may be just the thing you're looking for.
- New page: How to Centre a DIV Block Using CSS. How do you centre a block containing text and/or images without centering the text inside the block itself? This tutorial shows you the standards-compliant way to do it with CSS.
- New page: Free PHP Encoders, Accelerators and Obfuscators. For those who need to compile your PHP code to binary form, speed up your PHP scripts, or simply make your code hard to read, this page lists some free PHP encoders, accelerators and obfuscators for the task.
- New page: Is it Okay to Post YouTube Videos on My Website? (Copyright Question) Are there copyright issues when you embed someone else's YouTube video on your site or blog? What other practical concerns should you be aware of before you insert a third-party YouTube video into your web page or blog post? This article deals with these questions.
- New page: Free Find / Delete Duplicate Files Utilities. Are you running out of hard disk space because you have lots of duplicate files (like photos, MP3s, documents, etc) scattered all over your hard disk? Or are you trying to remove all the zero-length files that various programs seem to like to create. These free find duplicate files software allow you to track down and remove those duplicates (or zero length files) quickly and easily.
- New page: How to Make Your Links Change Colour When the Mouse Hovers Over It (Using CSS). Fascinated by the links on websites that are highlighted with a different colour when the mouse hovers over it? This article teaches you how you can create the same effect on your website using straightforward CSS.
- New page: Free BeOS and BeOS Clones. Fancy trying out another operating system for fun (or research)? Check out the list of free BeOS (the real thing) and its clones, and find out why this old operating system just won't die.
- Updated: A new anti-spyware program, SUPERAntiSpyware, has been added to the Free Spyware Detection, Removal and Prevention page. It detects and removes spyware, adware, trojans, keyloggers, worms, dialers, etc. Read more about it or check it out.
- New page: How to Add Google Advertisements (AdSense) to Your Website Using Dreamweaver. Continuing the series of articles on how to earn money from your website is this tutorial on how you can add Google advertisements, or AdSense, to your website using the well-known Dreamweaver web editor. All it takes is 6 easy steps.
- New page: Free Interactive Regular Expression (Regex) Testers and Builders. These free or open source software provide a variety of facilities to make it easier to create and test regular expressions. You can interactively create regular expressions through a point and click interface, test your regex with sample data, debug your expressions, or get the software to describe what a particular regular expression does in plain English. Read more about them and check them out.
- New page: What is HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP and Perl? Do I Need to Learn Them to Create a Website? If you're thinking of starting your own website, and are stumped by terms like HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP and Perl, take a look at this article, explaining them as well as describing what you'll need to do to create a website.
- Updated: Free Content Management Systems (CMS) PHP Scripts. BIGACE is a free content management system (CMS) that lets you create and maintain your website from a web-based interface. It features a customizable template system, categories, search engine friendly URLs, and so on. Read more about it or check it out.
- Updated: Free Antivirus Software and Free Online Virus Scans. A new free antivirus program has been added to this page. This program provides not just resident protection against viruses, trojans, worms and rootkits, it also scans your incoming and outgoing email, provides proactive defence, application access control, program startup control, hidden process detection, application protection, etc.
- New page: Free Physics Engines (Source Code and Libraries). Are you writing a game or a simulation? If so, the free and open source physics engines listed on this page may save you the time writing algorithms to handle things like collision of objects, explosions, liquid movement, cloth, etc. Many of these engines are used in well-known commercial games as well.
- Updated: Free Anonymous Surfing. Another anonymous surfing site has been added to the list. This one allows you to also remove JavaScripts, cookies and images, encode the address you are surfing as well as browse using Secure Socket Layer (SSL).
- New page: How to Use PHP Sessions to Store Data. Why struggle with cookies if what you want to do can be done automatically by using the built-in PHP sessions capability? This tutorial shows you how you can use sessions in PHP to store and retrieve your data. It also discusses when it's appropriate to use sessions and when cookies or other data storage methods are more suitable.
- New page: Free RAM Disks or RAMDisk Drivers. RAM disks appear like an extremely fast hard disk on your system. They can be useful for a variety of tasks, for example, as temporary space for certain applications that need to have a scratch space, or in bootable CDs. The fact that the contents of the drive automatically disappear when you reboot or shut down your computer can also come in handy. Read more about it and get a RAM disk for your system.
- New page: Free PHP Rating Scripts. Looking for a way to let your visitors rate the photos, articles, downloads, movies, books, reviews, etc, on your website? These free rating scripts allow you to do just that. They are customizable and have some facility to help prevent double voting.
- A new free PDF viewer that allows you to type into PDF files, even into areas that are not defined as form fields, has been added to the Free PDF Readers / Viewers page.
- New page: How to Add Google Advertisements (AdSense) to Your Website Using Nvu. I was asked by a visitor how she could add Google advertisements (AdSense) to her website using the free web editor, Nvu. This article shows you how you can do it in 6 easy steps.
- New page: Free FTP, SFTP and TFTP Source Code and Libraries. If you need to add an auto-updating facility in your application, or have your program access the Internet via FTP or SFTP, take a look at these libraries and source code so that you don't have to code FTP support from scratch.
- New page:
How Add or Remove the WWW Prefix from Your Domain Name.
How do you automatically add the "www" prefix to your domain name? Or perhaps you want to remove the "www" prefix from a URL. Doing either of these may
save your site from duplicate content issues in the search engines if your site is often referred to by both forms (that is,
example.comANDwww.example.com). This article shows you how you can fix this by simply adding a few lines to your.htaccessfile.
- New page: Free Fax Software. Want to set up your computer so that it can send and receive faxes automatically from your fax modem, saving yourself the cost (and space requirement) of a fax machine? Check out this newest page of free fax software for Windows, Linux, BSD, and other operating systems.
