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NetObjects Clicks—
promote your site for free!NetObjects has partnered with SmartAge to bring you SmartClicks, a free banner exchange service. It's an easy way to bring more traffic to your Web site, for free.  SmartClicks helps you promote your Web site on a high-quality network of over 100,000 of sites. You create a banner ad that is shown on targeted sites across the network; in exchange, you display banners for other members on your site. SmartClicks combines the most sophisticated
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Connected online backup
Everybody has to learn the hard way. They lose an important file and it takes them days or weeks to create it again fro scratch. Well, don't let that happen to you. You should be backing up your data, every day, to floppies, Zip disks or even online. Online? I know it sounds nuts to backup your private data on the Internet, but I do it. Every day. Automatically.Connected online backup is the best way to backup your data. Why? Because it's safe, secure, and available anywhere you are, 24 hours a day. Two years ago my house almost burnt down. Last year it almost floated away (what can I say, I like to live dangerously). But since my data is safely backed up to two remote locations, I don't have to worry. I
can always retrieve it. I also don't have to search through countless disks to find what I want--I just choose the file I want, and it's sent to me in real time.Connected is efficient because it only backs up what's changed. So if you're working on big Fusion or graphic files, it still only takes a few minutes a day to do a safe backup. For example, my eFuse.nod file is 15MB. But Connected only backs up the portion of the file that changes, so that's about
200-300K per day--it literally takes about a minute. Connected has one more really neat trick--it saves every version of your file. So if you want to restore a version from yesterday or last week or last year, you can. Connected has unbreakable security by applying 56-bit DES encryption (the same kind used in bank transactions) to all of your data before it leaves your computer. Get a Free 30-day/100 megabyte trial of the service. (The free trial lasts 30 days or until the amount of data. If you like it as much as I do, it's just $19.95 per month.
Add full-text searching to your site It used to be that if you wanted full-text search you had to buy expensive software and run your own server, so most sites don't offer their visitors this very useful and important feature. But now you can use http://www.thunderstone.com — a free service that indexes every word of your site, then lets your site visitors search your site and easily find what they're looking for. That's what we use on eFuse.com at on our Find page. It works with any site on any server (as long as your e-mail address is the same as the domain of your site), and it's easy (just visit and sign up and then add a little HTML to your site) and it's free.
Add complex forms to your site easily!
I used to shy away from forms because I'm not a programmer and I couldn't figure out CGI, the programming language most often used to handle complex forms. Well, now you can create easily create forms and have the results e-mailed to you, using simple HTML. Go to
http://www.response-o-matic.com—it's an easy system that does it all for you. Yes, there are some instructions to read, but it's really pretty simple and basic. Hey, programming is one thing that always gives me a headache, and I was able to use this system in just a few minutes — and it actually worked! It's what I use for all the eFuse questionnaires.
Make your site world-friendly—
translate it!
The web is global, yet your site is probably only in one language. Now there's an easy, free way to have your site translated to or from English, French, German, Spanish and Portuguese, complete with graphics (though it can't convert text inside of graphics, it can translate ALT tags, another reason to use them!) How? Using AltaVista's incredible translation service. If you're using NetObjects Fusion: -
Create a text box. Click on the "Text box is a form" box in the properties palette. Click on the "settings" button. Set Method to "Post" and into the "action" box type or paste:
http://babelfish.altavista.digital.com/cgi-bin/translate? (yes, there's a question mark on the end!)-
Under Hidden Fields, click on the plus. Under Name, type: urltext
- Under Value, type the full URL of your web site, including the http://
- Click on OK, OK.
- Choose View/Toolsbars/Form Tools and click on the first icon, the raised button. Click in your text box. In the properties palette, under Text, type: Translate
- Make sure the "type" set to set "submit" and click back on the page.
- Now, when you publish the site, clicking this button will
automatically take your visitors to AltaVista and the URL of your page will be placed in the translate box.
If you're not using NetObjects Fusion, add the following HTML to your page (making sure to change
http://www.eFuse.com to your own URL, unless you want people translating OUR page, which is fine with us!): <!— Translation menu —> <P><NOBR>
<FORM ACTION=http://babelfish.altavista.digital.com/cgi-bin/translate? METHOD="POST"> <INPUT TYPE="HIDDEN" NAME="doit"
VALUE="done"> Use <i>AltaVista</i> to <B>translate this page:</b></A> <INPUT TYPE="HIDDEN" NAME="urltext" VALUE="http://www.eFuse.com"> <INPUT TYPE=submit NAME=Translate! value="Translate"> </FORM> </NOBR> <!— End translation —>
Freedrive—25MB of free space on the web
Want a free, safe, remote place to store up to 20MB worth of your files? Files you can then access (or share) from anywhere in the world and share with anyone else? Freedrive gives you 20MB of free space you can access from any web browser. Upload and download files. It's simple and effective. It's also new, so I've found it to be a bit slow, but it's still useful. Give it a try.
eFax
– receive faxes by email, for free! FREE fax to email. They give you a free fax number. You have people fax to them, they turn it into email and email it to you. It's free. It's fast. It works. The software to read the faxes is small, and you just download it once. Then you can easily view or print your faxes. You can even print them four
fax pages to a single printed page. Very efficient. No more stinky thermal paper. No more dedicated fax phone lines. Now you can receive and file your faxes electronically.
HotSend
—email attachments made easy Also free. A lot of people find email attachments difficult and confusing—especially if you send a file in a format that someone else can't open because they don't have the program you used to create it. HotSend attaches to all your programs and adds a simple button. Press it, and it creates a self-contained program file, launches an email window and
lets you send your fully-formatted document (fonts, graphics and all). When someone receives it, they just launch the attachment and the viewer is included. They can view and print the document. This can also be used for saving and sending web pages.
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