Martin O'Sullivan's Freeware Corner: February 2007

February 2007

Free Services, and special effects of the Month:

I am so pleased to announce a vast amount of new FREEBIES on the home page of my main web site: http://www.freewebs.com/moswebsamples/ . Besides the normal freebies of the month on the main site, as well as a page of all total freebies, the home page boasts a bunch of online free services you can do right within my site. Such as: build a Flash menu for your site fast, a Link Popularity checker, embed a video on your site, create an amazing 3d text logo for your site, place a chat program on your site so you, and your visitors can talk to each other in real time, allow your visitor to translate your web site into one of many different languages, Place a dictionary look up box on your page, and offer a REFER THIS SITE TO A FRIEND form. I will be adding on to my home page to even offer you more free services you can do immediately with my site. Just pick one or all, and work on it right from my site without leaving the page.

Free HTML Templates For Your Web Site...

(As always, if you go to my main web site http://www.freewebs.com/moswebsamples/ to see the Freebies in action. There you will see the Freebies of the Month page is actually made out of a free template.

You can choose from a vast amount of sites that offer free templates for your site, so you will be sure to find one that suits your style best. Some are more professional then others, but one thing they have in common is that they are all absolutely free. They are very simple to edit if you have moderate HTML knowledge and a HTML editor (Visit my ALL FREEBIES page to select a great free HTML editor if you don't already have one). Simply replace the images, and text with your own. That is all there is to it. All the tags, tables, and instructions are built right in template for you, but you can change them if you would like. The menu system is complete too. Just rename it, and link it to your pages. The free template used on my main site's Freebie of the Month page comes not only with a nice menu, but a nice mouse roll-over effect.This template came from HTMLTEMPLATES.NET, but simply go to Google, Yahoo, or any of your favorite search engines and type in - free HTML templates. You will find no shortage of web sites that offer them.

Free Web Related Software Program of the Month...

This months free web related software program is called Backlinks Master. Allow me to describe what this great program does. Let's say you exchange links with other web sites. You know you placed their link on your site, but as weeks, months go by, you can verify all these links on your site, to see if your link is on their site. Oh sure, you can check them yourself one by one, by why? Have Backlinks Master check for you, fast, and saving you time. If you have a link page with dozens, and dozens, maybe even a hundred or so links do you really want to spend the time to go to all of those sites to verify your link is there? It would take hours. This simple program takes no learning. It is just that easy! Just enter your home page URL address, and if you would like, enter other pages from your site too. Click the menu bar's selection PROJECT, then choose Search. Now all you do is sit back and have a cup of coffee, or whatever you wish (I suggest a nice bottle of Turkey Hill's Diet Green Ice Tea Ha!). In moments the list is populated, and you can see what sites have your link posted on their pages. This is a great way to verify. If you have a link on your site, but you do not see yours on theirs? Notify them that you discovered this flaw, (being kind), and ask them to correct the problem, or within a 30 day limit you will reluctantly remove their link from your site (all using kind words).

Free Non Web Related Software Program of the Month...

AVG anti Virus free edition is thought to be the best free anti virus program there is. Even going as far as being thought of as the best anti virus program free, or commercial. Yes, the program is truly free, and for a reason. They offer their program free to anyone for personal use on your home computer, or computers, because if you are in a position at work to suggest programs, you may suggest theirs. Your company would have to buy the commercial version. No, you do not have to be in a position like that to get it. It is for anyone, again, as long as it is for personal use. I have had Norton's, and Mcafee anti virus programs, but I chose this as my current anti virus program. With the other programs every year you have to purchase the right to update them for about 30 bucks a year. To me it is like renting a program, not owning it. With AVG anti virus you get top notch security, that updates daily, forever, for free. It runs in the background protecting you, and you can run scheduled scans, as well as scans whenever you wish. This program is so good, that commercial anti virus programs are losing big bucks due to this company (Grisoft). AVG is considered, not by me alone, but by all the PC magazines as the best anti virus program free or commercial! Just think about this: how much will it cost you to have your anti virus program for 5 years? Now, think of that money in your pocket instead! That should be enough to convince you alone. The only difference in the paid version versus the free version are minimal, such as support, but the protection is the same. The commercial version also has a firewall, but the best firewall in the world is Zone Alarm, and that is free too! (Next months freebie). The commercial version also has anti spyware, but the best anti spyware (actually there are a few great free anti spyware programs), is free too! So I say spend the money on something fun for yourself or on much needed bills. Get AVG anti virus free edition.