Photos on Freewebs

As if there weren’t enough places on the web to keep your photos, you can also keep some on Freewebs? The interface is fairly easy to use. First thing you need to do is log in. Once you are logged in go to the Site Manager. Or you can even go there from the Site Builder. If we were to continue from the Calendar tutorial it would looks something like this.

Select Photos from the drop down located at the top left hand corner of the screen.

You can either select an Album to edit or select Add album, which is exactly what we are going to do.

Enter a New Album in the space provided or if you decide you really wanted to put it in an Existing Album then select that option and choose the album from the list.

Then Upload your photos. You can do this from you local computer by selecting Upload Photos.

You’ll get a familiar file dialog. Choose the file you want to upload from your local computer and select Open.

You can also put photos you have already uploaded into your album by selecting My Images. This tab will list all the images you have already uploaded to Freewebs.

Choose the images you want to add. Choosen images will be highlighted. Once you have the correct images for the album click Submit.

Congratulations, you have an album with some photos in it on Freewebs.

You can edit the album from this screen. Choosing which Photo to use for the album cover. Adding titles and description for the Photos and the album. You can even do some minor photo manipulations, like rotate, from this screen. Don’t forget to select Save when you are done.

Select this link to see this album on Freewebs.

Calendars on Freewebs

Were you wondering how to use the calendars on Freewebs? It’s very easy. First thing you need to do is log in. Once you are logged in go to the Site Manager. Or you can even go there from the Site Builder. If we were to continue from the Blogging tutorial it would look something like this.

Select Calendar from the drop down located at the top left hand corner of the screen.

And you will be presented with the Calendar screen. Select Add Event to add an event to the calendar.

Enter a Title for the event an any rich text Description you desire for the details. Set a Start Time and an End Time. You can also select All Day Event if the event is going to be a long one. Once you have the Add a Calendar event form filled out, then select Submit.

And your event will be recorded for posterity.

Next up: Photos

Blogging on Freewebs

Or I should call it webs now.

www.freewebs.com was a site I used to use for file storage. I never actually cared that you could actually create a website there and didn’t use that functionality. This year I started using it and they have also been improving it. Now you can get a pretty full featured website up pretty quickly.

I figured I’d put up some tutorials at using some of the features. One because I’m always looking for something to blog about lately and two because I think these tutorials will help someone out.

The first tutorial is blogging and the first step is to log into freewebs by typing your username and password in the boxes provided.

You will be presented with the dashboard for your account.

Move your mouse over Edit My Site and a drop down menu will appear. Select Site Manager from the drop down menu.

Since we are blogging select Blog from the list of pages.

And you will be presented with the Site Builder for you Blog. Select Post New Entry.

Enter a Title and use the rich text box to enter the body for your blog entry. You have a lot of formatting control over the rich text box and you can add images or embed video.

Select the Publish button when you are finished.

And you’ll have your first blog entry on Freewebs. Here is a link to the actual blog entry. Next up: Calendars

WARNING: Webs.com has been freezing sites for very little reason and often don’t respond to inquires about the freeze.  Just letting you know.

Blidgets

Not only can you find interesting widgets at WidgetBox, but you can also create your own.

Click this link to Make a Widget. You will be presented with the following screen.

Choose Blog/Feed and you will be prompted for your blog feed url.

Enter your feed url and continue and it attempts to generate your blidget but I don’t think it will be exactly what you want, you’ll need to customize it.

Customize the blidget. By choosing the Appearance – I went for the leopard skin.

And the content – I went for the slide show.

And finally the cataloguing details. People can search for your finished widget – if you want them to.

Once you save the widget, you will get the widget screen. This is the screen that anyone who wants your widget will see. You can further customize your widget here and then “Get Widget”

And you will be given a little box that has the javascript you need to publish your widget on any page.

My javascript looks like this.

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://cdn.widgetserver.com/syndication/subscriber/InsertWidget.js"></script>

<script>if (WIDGETBOX) WIDGETBOX.renderWidget('6468a97f-3334-484d-923f-7bbc75305463');</script>

<noscript></noscript>

Once you have the Javascript, just place it wherever you can place html. I use one in my forum signatures.