I hate XOOM!

You could try Geocities.. They are quite ok, (www.geocities.com) but the URL''s are terrible there. Tripod is also OK. And there are others.. But I still think the best would be to buy some space - no advertisement banners would then be required.. Ask your ISP.

Jarkko

I''m with you, Ferinorius.

- DarkMage139
"Real game developers don't change the rules. Real game developers don't break the rules. Real game developers make the rules!"
"Originality (in games) is the spice of life!"

Try and find someone to host your page for free... when I needed hosting for a JediKnight page, I got free unlimited space with JediKC, and I only have to stick a small logo for JediKC in a corner, with a single banner on the openning page. I think its a good deal

J2xC (J. Connolly)

"Then study this: Borg provokes Klingon, Klingon breaks Borg's nose" Belanna Torres, Star Trek Voyager 5.11 "Someone to watch over me"

any of you know what goes into buying and setting up your own domain name...like www.NeoToshi.com...? (my software comp.)

Well here''s what I did when I went about to get my domain and space.

I went to a space provider. www.smarthosting.com

I signed up for their plan.... follow their instructions... checked what domain I wanted... gave credit card number....

DONE!




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-Now Working on Pokemon like Engine!

http://crosswinds.net doesnt have a banner on their pages

and the geocities urls arent bad anymore u can now just use geocities.com/urname

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Come, help me program my 3d game, i just picked up a new copy of Learn C++ in 21 days!
--Unknown Newbie
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Damnit people..

How many times fo I have to say this??

There is the GDA (Game Developers Archive), you get free hosting with no banners or ads!

Even get CGI access, and can use ASP, and for $5/month you can have your own domain name hosted, and we can get you a domain name for just $20/year

Soon to come you will also get anonymous FTP with up to 200 megs of files allowed.

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David Athay
GDA

how about trying www.homestead.com

its not bad for ads (but its free). the only problem is you have to use thier web page editor.

Hey david, u just beat me to it!



Edited by - cow_in_the_well on June 28, 2000 3:30:40 AM

You can try www.jmwebdesigns.comas well.
But in my opinion, the best thing is to get hosted by your provider - they do often provide (banner-)free webspace for their users.
YES XOOM SUCKS!!! That''s the reason, why i did not update my Homepage in the last 6 (!) months.

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Andreas Mähler
Wolf359 Interactive

Well Now,

Me personally I used FreeNetName.co.uk to create a CO.UK
address. Then because it was costing me money to update
the page I simply linked it with an enter here link to my
bigger free page at Homestaed.com

STVOY


Mega Moh Mine!!

STVOY: That sounded good until you realise that there is a £94 release fee if you want to actually move the domain name.

-- Kazan - Fire Mountain Games --

Geocities is really good! the URLs aren't terrible. The URLs used to be bad. NOW, if you register you can get an URL like: www.geocities.com/yourusername/

that's pretty good! and they have an awsome file manager.

Dade 11

Edited by - Dade 11 on June 29, 2000 10:01:56 AM

New problem came to me today, not too long before posting this, but i need to know if it is my computer or xoom that is causing this. When i go to connect to ftp.xoom.com through WS_FTP and other ones, it says cannot change root. I hope this is xoom, and sorry if this was a newbie question, this is my first jump into web design

Spaceports offers free CGI-Bin, though there are forced popups or banners (to switch from popup to banner, you must add their ad code. They pay you, but if your site has many downloads (zips, exes, etc.) you should avoid them.

Then, if you''re willing to pay, there''s No Monthly Fees, it''s $35 a year for a pretty good package, 200MB space and full CGI and everything.

Stas gives 999.999MB free space with good speed and no visible ads, but no CGI/FTP either (good file manager though).