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news:alt.discuss.clubs.public.website.pagebuilder.sec retadmirerOkay, stuff we have this month:
- Free Dot Coms for Page Builders!
- Great Finds
- Mickie's Luv Letter
- Vicki's Gif(t)s
- MLski's Memorial Day Page
- 2 New Tutorials
- Bragging Rights & Congrats
- Birthdays & Anniversaries
- Tidbits (Wedding Page Style)
- Classified Ads
- Our Links
Free Dot Coms
Page Builders can now have their very own dot.com's - at no cost! Namezero will register the name of your choice and pay the registration fee. You own the name. You enter your Page Builder site into their frame. The catch? They have an advertisement, of course, in the frame. Your site remains at Page Builder. You can edit it whenever you want. You can give out your Page Builder address or your new Dot.com address. Since it's free and you give up nothing, I say: what are you waiting for?
- Goto: http://www.NameZero.com
- Click on the "Sign Up" button (top right)
- Fill in your name, address, phone, and the dot.com name you want.
- Press the "submit" button.
- You will see: You have successfully signed up.
- Go to your e-mail box.
- You will need to click on a link in an e-mail you receive to confirm your registration.
- Click on: Yes, I accept.
- In about a day you will receive your Congratulations e-mail, along with your password.
- Go to your new address. example: http://www.JamaicanCandy.com (Richard and I just had to!)
- Go all the way down the bottom. Click on "Control Panel."
- Type in your Domain name and Password, then press: "Enter."
- You will see "Home Channel." Click on "Change" (They refer to your Page Builder page as a Channel).
- Fill in the title of your page, some keywords, a description of your page and your Page Builder URL (address).
- Click on "Change."
- It's a Done Deal! Hit your goto key, type in your Domain name and see your Page Builder Page in a whole new light! (If you are seeing the old sign in page, all you need to do is reload.)
Great Finds
I offer two pages of backgrounds made with my own resources. In the past, I received a lot from this group and this is my way to pay back the favors. You are wonderful. Please, drop me a note and let me know is you like it. Thank You. Ustäk.Slowfingers writes: i remember when i was a beginner i was intrigued by all these extra keyboard characters…… if you know how to create some that are not listed here please write me………
Laughs
by Mick
Here's Mickie's Luv Letter to u. Our Mickie is a funny, funny lady.
Vicki's Gif(t)s
Breathes there a webber with soul so dead, who doesn't love gifs? Gifs and jpg's and icons and logos -- we can't get enough of 'em. Everyone has their favorite site for gifs, like Draac's, Patrick's, and, of course, Lady Oh. I thought I would share a few of my favorites with you. Who knows? Maybe some of them are new to you or maybe they've slipped your mind. For example, have you been to Beard Bros Animated Gifs? If you have, you probably love it, too. Hundreds of gifs, with menus that make it a breeze to navigate the site. Two sites I've recently discovered are Squeege World and Magic's Gif Gallery. Beautiful backgrounds, some of the nicest I've seen, as well as stunning gifs. How about Koffee's Gif Shop? Have you seen that one? Bogie's House of Gifs, Big Daddy's Gifs to Go, Hrtogld's Gifs and Antonio's Gifs FKey Saver are among the very best. Want specialty gifs and backgrounds? Try Barry's Nautical Clip Art, Rastafaria's Poster Art and Sounds, Patriotic Gifs and Beth's Mickey Mouse gifs. The Mickeys have a built-in uploader. Webtastics just won Tripod's Super Site award, and if you look at his gifs page, you'll see one of the reasons why. Don't pass on those kids' gifs sites, either; some of them have wonderful stuff for all pages. Check out Gicky's Gifs and Katy's Kids Korner. Most, if not all, of these sites have links to other gif sites and if you still can't find what you're looking for, try this Image Search Engine. Has Anybody Seen My Dancing Chicken?
Of course, I don't have to tell you that linking is immoral, illegal, and fattening, not to mention bandwidth theft, do I? Several people have lost their sites on Geocities because WebTVer's were linking to their images on Pagebuilder pages or in email. Besides, it can really mess up your pages when the server breaks the links or if the page with the linked images is deleted. When I was new to WebTV, I woke up one morning to find black boxes where my dancing chickens once were. Boy, I learned my lesson! There are many scrapbook uploaders that are very simple to use, and I'm sure you've come across several of them. The best one for uploading any size image is Beth's Scrapbook Uploader. Webscissors is a breeze to use when you want to upload an image from a webpage. (Just be sure you're not using someone's copyrighted work without permission.)
I hope you find something you can use in some of the sites I've recommended and I hope you take my advice and upload them. (That goes for Draac's site and other sites that give you permission, no matter what you may read in one of the newsgroups.) If uploading is still a sticky problem for you, Miski1 has a great tutorial on uploading; read it and 'save' it in favorites for future reference. If you have a problem with your pages loading too slow, read Beth's The Long Long Trailer. You may be surprised at how easy it is to resize images without affecting their appearance. Oh, and here's one more gif site for you. It's small (two pages), and just links, but it's mine and this is my article, so I figured I'd give myself a plug: JUST GIFS- Vicki
MLski's Memorial Day Page
by MLski
MLski's Memorial Day Page - Mlski writes: When I began this page I didn't know where it was going to go. Then I began to think about growing up with the Viet Nam war as a background to my childhood....
Page Builder Pioneers
We have two new additions to the Page Builders Pioneers page and one location change.Jaxred's Tutorial on adding a Thunderstone Source Code Viewer to your WebTV Page Builder Site.
ML's Tutorial About Uploading
I have a handy dandy copy of Eprom's PBFind now on my site.
Bragging Rights & Congrats to:
Kudos to Webtvgirl's successful WebTV Life & My Pets linked Page- over 1000 hits in 2 weeks! Webtvgirl sends a big thank you for your support.Inside Vicki's brag bag: Both of my grandsons won the FLASHER2 Cool Site Award for their pages: Here is Rollin's page (he's 10yrs old), and this is Justin's. He's 8yrs old. They did all of the work themselves, with me supervising the CC&P stuff. Obviously, they're better at this stuff than I am.
June Birthdays & Anniversaries
Here's our BlueMountain Occasions:Join us in celebrating the 1st Anniversary on June 6, 2000 of Webtvgirls' The Shih Tzu Forum™ main Page!
Angela aka Angelaruth49@webtv.net celebrates a birthday on June 12th. Happy Birthday Angela and many more!
Happy 64th birthday to Patricia on June 23rd! Patricia is a proud grandmother to a brand new baby girl (born May 3rd) and 7 others!
Tidbits
If you have previously tried to use the "Wedding" page style in Page Builder you would have run into a little problem. That darn cake showed in preview but not on the actual page. Well it's working now!
Wedding Cake for Everyone!
http://community-2.webtv.net/SecretAdmirer/Wedding/
Wedding Cake for everyone! It's a year old but who eats Wedding cake anyway, lol.
Classified Ads
My friend Ray is selling this:
It's a Sony Classic with printer adapter and keyboard, and I'm even throwing in some WebTV schwag we got at the beach party last year (beach ball, frisbee, etc). http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ite m=339298652
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