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  BuildFree Bits: September 2, 2010                                 Get More BuildFree Bits At The BuildFree Blog

There seems to be a bit of confusion on using images, clipart and photographs on your free website. What is the difference between Bitmap (BMP), Jpeg (JPG), GIF and PNG, and when do you use each different type? The short answer is that you want to use the smallest file size that still displays the image effectively. Generally, Bitmap and PNG are larger files than Jpeg and GIF. I have found an article that goes into detail and explains the differences in file extensions and when to use each different image. The article also explains the file size issue on a webpage and the advantages of image compression (file size reduction). Ok, enough from me, read the article HERE.

  BuildFree Bits: September 1, 2010

I use a cool free web tool that tells how many people are on my free website at any given time. Each time a page is loaded on a website, it loads the widget that determines if your reader is a new visitor or if they are already tracking them in the count. Using sophisticated algorithms along with a pre-determined timeout, they display a calculated result of how many people are visiting your website in real time. Simply copy and paste the HTML code you see that's located on the main page or customize the widget colors then copy the code displayed into your website HTML code. They also have a World map that displays markers of where your visitors are located. Read more and get your own free real time visitor tracker HERE.

  BuildFree Bits: August 31, 2010

Sometimes when I run across a website that has everything I need as a new webmaster, I just want to share it with everyone. Such is the case with SearchBliss.com. I have used their free website tools so many times on so many of my websites that I cannot thank them enough. Their free webmaster tools allow you to improve your website by offering professional dynamic menus, buttons, build web pages and more With their free web authoring tools, you can build and improve websites easily for free. They also offer an unbranded tool section so that you can remove the link back to SearchBliss, or even put the tools on your website. Go HERE and be sure to use the "Try It" option. 

  BuildFree Bits: August 30, 2010

One of the best uses of a free website is one you may never have thought of. When you save a website or web page to your favorites, it is available on your browser, which is on your computer. And if you are like me, you have hundreds of favorites that you go to, but when is the last time you typed in the address? What would you do if your computer took a crap and you couldn't access your favorites. You could get a new computer and download Internet Explorer (or your favorite browser) again, but your favorites will not be there and you will have to start over because they were on your old computer. What I have done is to create a free web page that I put all my favorite links on. That way it is on the internet and I can access from any computer anywhere that has internet. You could even keep the link private so that no one else will find it or go there. I recommend that you get started HERE.

  BuildFree Bits: August 29, 2010

One of my brilliant ideas when I was first learning to build free websites was to create a free website that had some of the great nature photographs I have taken displayed and listed for sale. I wanted to show a thumbnail, then sell the full size high resolution version of the photo for a small price. I thought I would be able to let my visitors preview a full size photo and they would still pay me. Well of course my inexperience in web building an the general faith and trust in people was taught a great lesson when I learned you could just right click on an image and steal it to your own computer. And I learned that even if you disable the right click, people will still view the code, follow the image path and steal the photo that way. So I learned the only way to prevent this is to put a "watermark" on the image, so at least the version will have a brand on it, forcing the prospective user to buy the photo without the watermark. There is a free download for a program that you can put a watermark on your images and photographs HERE.

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