Freeservers.com  
Member Newsletter
August 17, 2000 Volume II, Issue 2
 
This newsletter is sent only to Freeservers Web site owners. Click here to find out how to delete your Web site/unsubscribe.
 IN THIS ISSUE

NEWS YOU CAN USE
  What's Up With the New Banner Bar
  
Back Up Your Site!
BUILD YOUR SITE
  Beginning: Customizing the Banners on Your Site
  Advanced: Of Images and Image Formats
PROMOTE YOUR SITE
  Get Targeted Traffic to Your Site With Sprinks
  Web Site Traffic Analysis for eBusiness!
ENHANCE YOUR SITE
  Plug-in-Portal by Everyone.net
  Let Visitors Search Your Site!
MAKE MONEY WITH YOUR SITE
  Strike Gold with the Gold Mine Affiliate Program!
Make Money With About.com!
  Link to the NextCard Visa, Make $20 Per Sale
FREESERVERS.COM SUPERB SITE AWARD
MEET THE FREESERVERS.COM PEOPLE
USER UTILITY LINKS
CONTACT FREESERVERS.COM
PAST ISSUES

THIS ISSUE'S HOT PICK
Add streaming video to your Web site! You can get started today with a FREE TRIAL. Clipscom.com has made it simple and affordable to add video to your Web site. Streaming video enables you to:
  • share special events and milestones with relatives across the country
  • show off the big play from last week’s game
  • provide training session highlights
  • demonstrate your products and services
This exciting new service makes it easy to place video clips on your home page, in your e-mail messages, and even on auction or recruiting Web sites. Click here to see sample videos and learn how to get started today!
Back to top
 NEWS YOU CAN USE

What's Up with the New Banner Bar
Banner ads put the "free" in Freeservers: If advertising supports our upgrades and improvements, then you don't have to! In addition to our responsibility to keep Freeservers both improving and free, we do realize our responsibility to minimize the impact of banners on your site and its visitors. With both responsibilities in mind, Freeservers has recently implemented a new ad banner area at the top of your pages. The new banner area is wider than before, but takes less space vertically on your page--actually increasing the amount of usable Web space.

To find out how to customize the appearance of the banner bar on your site, click here. If you do not wish to have banner ads on your site, click here for an inexpensive way to get rid of the banner ads.

A pop-behind ad window has also been implemented. To minimize the ad window's impact on your visitors, we designed the banner to pop behind your site window so it will not interfere with your site's design. Your visitors should also get only one pop-behind window, once a month. This means that there will be little effect on your site, but it will allow Freeservers to keep improving.

Back Up Your Site!
We probably cannot remind you enough that if your Web site is important to you, you should back up your site to protect against possible disk errors or other problems. Freeservers makes a tremendous effort to protect your site against data loss, but we cannot guarantee that no loss will occur. To read more about backing up your site, please click here. If you are a beginner and would like more information about using FTP to back up your site, click here.
Back to top
 BUILD YOUR SITE
Beginning: Customizing the Banners on Your Site
Does our blue banner ad clash with your orange and fuchsia site? Although we put banner ads on your site to keep us "Free"servers, we do want you to be able to integrate banners smoothly into your site's appearance. Click here for tips on how to customize the appearance and position of banner ads and for troubleshooting tips on getting rid of multiple banners.

Advanced: Of Images and Image Formats
GIF, JPG, PNG. Get the low-down on the different graphic formats by clicking here.
Back to top
 PROMOTE YOUR SITE
Get Targeted Traffic to Your Site With Sprinks
With over 16.4 million visitors and over 700 topical GuideSites, About, a top ten internet site, is reaching your audience. Now you can too! About offers SPRINKS, the only place online that you can choose your price, your placement and your context. SPRINKS gives you integration, ease and efficiency in your advertising and enables you to reach an audience already looking for your products and services. To learn more, click here.
Back to top
 ENHANCE YOUR SITE
Plug-in-Portal by Everyone.net
Add 100% free, fully branded, search and community to your site! Our powerful services will help your site attract and retain more users. They are fully customizable and integrate so tightly with your site that visitors will think you developed them yourself. Plug-in-Portal is absolutely free and takes only minutes to set up, so simply sign up and start offering it today!
Back to top
MAKE MONEY WITH YOUR SITE
Strike Gold with the Gold Mine Affiliate Program
The Gold Mine from Cybergold pays up to $5 per lead and sale! With the Gold Mine Affiliate Program, you can get rich and so can your site's visitors. Cybergold will pay you $1 for each new member AND a 30% commission for each completed cash-earning offer link. PLUS, for trying out great products and services like iWin, Radiofreecash, and Xdrive, your visitors will earn cash too--which they can transfer directly to their personal checking account or Visa® card. Click here to join one of the most unique affiliate programs today!
Make Money with About.com!
Earn $0.03 for each qualified click-through you drive to About.com through our Affiliate Program. Link your personal Web site to About.com sites and let us support and enhance your content. About.com Affiliates not only earn money, they also qualify for Affiliate-only sweepstakes, vacation giveaways, free cash and other prizes. Apply today!

Link to the NextCard Visa, Make $20 Per Sale
Freeservers introduces a great opportunity for you to make money through your Web site. All you need to do is sign up as a NextCard affiliate and put their banner on your page. For each sale you generate through your Freeservers Web site, you'll receive AT LEAST $20.00! For more details on how to sign up, click here.
Back to top
 FREESERVERS "SUPERB SITE AWARD"

Each issue of the Freeservers Member Newsletter, we award the Freeservers Superb Site Award. Chosen by the staff at Freeservers, each Superb Site winner is a model of how to use the features available to all Freeservers members. To nominate a site for the Superb Site Award, click here.

This issue’s winner of the Freeservers Superb Site Award features a virtual tour of Ancestral Goa, India. This site is unique in its use of map locations and drawings as a menu. To visit this Superb Site for ideas on improving your site, go to http://ancestralgoa.8m.com.

To see past winners of the Freeservers Superb Site Award, click here.

Back to top
 MEET THE FREESERVERS.COM PEOPLE
Ever wonder about who makes Freeservers work? Here's your chance to find out a bit about the people behind the servers. To meet Linda Garbett, our Executive Assistant, click here.
Back to top
 USER UTILITY LINKS
Want to change your password? Need to change your e-mail information? These links will take you to your user utilities.
To cancel your Web site: click here
Forgotten Web site address or password: click here
To change your member profile: click here
To change your password: click here
To change your e-mail settings: click here
To reset your Web site: click here
To view your Traffic Statistics: click here
Back to top
 CONTACT FREESERVERS
Do you have a problem or question about your Freeservers Web site? Here's how to get in touch with us:
Technical Support or Billing Questions
If you need help, the first thing you should do is check our Help Page. From there, you can access our Frequently Asked Questions or fill out a form to e-mail Customer Support.
Compliments
If you like what Freeservers is doing, let us know by filling out the form here.
Suggestions

To make a suggestion on how we can improve Freeservers, please fill out the form here.
Complaints
If you've had a bad experience with our service, please let us know by filling out the form here.
Report Abuse of Freeservers Accounts
If you have found a Freeservers account that is violating the Terms of Use Agreement, please report it.
Back to top
 PAST ISSUES
To access past issues of this newsletter, click here.
Back to top
 HOW TO DELETE YOUR WEB SITE/UNSUBSCRIBE
This message is not spam! You received this newsletter because you (or someone using your e-mail account) signed up for a Web site on Freeservers. If you do not want to receive any more e-mails from us about your Web site, you can delete your Web site by clicking here. If you do not recall your site name and password, click here and they will be e-mailed to you. (Be sure to use the same e-mail address you signed up with!) If you have more than one Web site, you must delete them all in order to be removed from our Web site owners list.