For anyone with galleries/sites on AOL Hometown

Priss-chan · Post by **Priss-chan** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 1:37 pm

I received an e-mail from AOL saying that AOL Hometown will be kaput at the end of October, so in case anyone else has sites or cel galleries or anything using Hometown, you're gonna have to move your site somewhere else, unless you want it to disappear =/

If you wanna save your pages, you can sign into AOL, go to Keyword: FTP, and follow the instructions there.

As for me, my gallery is on Rubberslug, but my fanfic site is on Hometown, so I need to find another site to park it on. Anyone have any (preferably free) recommendations?

Penguinton · Post by **Penguinton** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 2:09 pm

Oh wow...That stinks...

Um the only site I can think of thats good for fanfics is fanfiction.net.

Priss-chan · Post by **Priss-chan** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 2:15 pm

Oh, I do have copies of my fics themselves on ff.net already. My Hometown site is mostly for character profiles, concordance pages, linking to other peoples' sites who've written crossover with my stories, fanart, stuff like that.

I guess I could check out Geocities or something. My problem is, I'm NOT HTML-savvy, so I want something that'll be easy for me to use and figure out ^^;

Penguinton · Post by **Penguinton** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 2:19 pm

OH! Well freewebs is pretty simple to use. I had one once and I'm not html savy either. You might wanna check them out...

zerospace · Post by **zerospace** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 2:32 pm

You can use any free host you want if you have/get a WYSIWYG html editor like FrontPage or Dreamweaver

and/or an FTP program like WSFTP.

I've been on paid hosting so long I don't even know who the free hosts are anymore

, but many used to offer free site-building tools when I was still using them.

Belldandy16 · Post by **Belldandy16** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 7:07 pm

look into flickr(dot) com.
one of the kids i work with has her pictures on there and she loves it!

not sure if its what youre looking for but wouldnt hurt giving it a try.

good luck with finding a new site!

genomexec · Post by **genomexec** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 9:08 pm

Crap... thanks for the heads up... time to find a new home for my gallery.

miz ducky · Post by **miz ducky** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 9:20 pm

zerospace wrote:You can use any free host you want if you have/get a WYSIWYG html editor like FrontPage or Dreamweaver and/or an FTP program like WSFTP.

Nvu is a free WYSIWYG html editor. It was recommended to me by a friend who is an experienced web designer, for ease of use.
http://www.download.com/Nvu/3000-2048_4-10412423.html

Belldandy · Post by **Belldandy** » Sun Oct 05, 2008 3:35 pm

http://sites.google.com it's free and seems fairly straight forward with no ads.