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- Sign-up Questions
- Can everybody join 4AF?
- How do I sign up?
- How do I subscribe/unsubscribe to your newsletter?
- General Questions
- Can I change my user name and password?
- How do I change my account information?
- How do I cancel my account?
- Do you remove inactive accounts without warning?
- Do I need to install any CGI on my server?
- Do I have to register and configure every single service?
- How can I make money with my website?
- Service Questions
- What is a URL?
- What are these TITLE and BODY fields?
- Can you help me with the HTML stuff?
- How do I get an image to show up on my page?
- Why will my images not show up?
- Protected Pages
- I protected one of my pages. Why can people still get in?
- Can I have more than 7 logins?
- Is this a child safety gate for pornography?
- Can i hide the URL of my protected page?
SIGN-UP QUESTIONS
Q: Can everybody join 4AF?
Yes, anyone who has a website can join the 4AF network of smart webmasters. It doesn't matter whether your site is a personal home page or a commercial web site. At 4AF everyone is equal. The only requirement is that you agree to our Terms Of Use.
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Q: How do I sign up?
Easy as pie! Signing up takes less than a minute! After registering your website you are ready to go!
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Q: How do I subscribe/unsubscribe to your newsletter?
By default you will automatically be added to the mailing list for our 4AF newsletter when you join. You can choose not to subscribe by unchecking the Mailing List button at sign up.
Should you decide at a later date to unsubscribe or re-subscribe, simply go to the 4AF Newsletter page.
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GENERAL QUESTIONS
Q: Can I change my user name and password?
Sorry, your user name cannot be changed. It's your log-in ID by which our system recognizes you. But you can change your password in the "edit account" menu on your control panel page.
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Q: How do I change my account information?
You can change any of your account information (including your e-mail address, name, home page URL, password, etc.) in the "edit account" menu on your control panel page.
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Q: How do I cancel my account?
You can cancel your account and delete all your information in our system in the "edit account" menu on your control panel page. WARNING: All your data will be lost! You cannot undo this action.
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Q: Do you remove inactive accounts without warning?
No. We never close an account just for inactivity, without giving a warning first. If you have not logged into your 4AF account for several months and none of your registered services are being used, we will send you a reminder that you have an account with 4AF, but you're not using it. If we do not get a response from you, we assume that you have chosen not to use our services, and we will remove your account aswell as any information we may have on file about you or your account.
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Q: Do I need to install any CGI on my server?
Absolutly not. We handle all the technical details on our end. All you need to do is sign up for your own free 4AF pages and then link to them from your home page.
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Q: Do I have to register and configure every single service?
No. After you join the 4AF network, you will have instant access to ALL the services we offer. You don't HAVE to configure your service pages to make them look and feel like the rest of your site, but you CAN! Of course some services won't make sense until you configure them properly. The password gate for example won't work until you enter some valid passwords and specify which of your pages you would like to protect.
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Q: How can I make money with my website?
For a short tutorial, visit our Making Money Online page.
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SERVICE QUESTIONS
Q: What is a URL?
It's the address of your website. Uniform Resource Locators (URIs aka URLs) are short strings that identify resources in the web: documents, images, files, services, electronic mailboxes, and other resources.
For example: A document called hello.html on webserver www.cool.com in directory /pub/files corresponds to this URL: http://www.cool.com/pub/files/hello.html .
Many other URLs are possible. At the top of your browser window there is a text field, commonly referred to as the "Address" bar. If you watch the contents of that as you navigate through information (i.e. websites) on the Internet, you'll get to observe how URLs are put together for many different types of information. top
Q: What are these TITLE and BODY fields?
The TITLE element contains the name of the web page. Whatever you choose to write in the TITLE field will show up in the bar across the top of the browser window. The BODY field controls the basic look of the web page.
Here is an example:
<BODY BGCOLOR=white TEXT=black LINK=blue ALINK=green VLINK=red>
BGCOLOR refers to the background color of your page. If you enter an image URL in the BACKGROUND tag, the image you select will be displayed as the background of your page. TEXT refers to the default color of the text on your page. LINK refers to the color of a text link. ALINK is the color of a highlighted link, and VLINK is the color of an already visited link. The BODY tag marks the beginning of the actual page. It is followed by the text or graphics you choose to display on your page. top
Q: Can you help me with the HTML stuff?
Sorry, although we would like to, we cannot help you learn HTML beyond this FAQ. The volume of e-mail we receive every day just won't permit an individual response to HTML-related questions. But we do add frequently asked questions to this page.
To learn the basics of HTML you can look for a free online HTML course on the Internet. top
Q: How do I get an image to show up on my page?
Any additional graphics you'd like to add to your pages must be stored on your own website. And when you link to the graphic, you need to include the full URL address. So, if you want to use a background image from your website with the name "back.gif", you need to enter http://www.yourserver.com/yourpath/back.gif
Here's an example: Let's say your AOL name is tonythegreat and your home page is http://members.aol.com/tonythegreat Then your full image URL for a graphic named logo.gif would be: http://members.aol.com/tonythegreat/logo.gif Or, if you stored the graphic in a special graphics folder (let's say the folder is called mygraphics) then the full image URL would be: http://members.aol.com/tonythegreat/mygraphics/logo.gif
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Q: Why will my images not show up?
Ok, i added some images from my home page to a 4AF service page but nothing (or a XOOM error logo) appears. Some webhosts (especially free webhosts, such as XOOM) do not allow other systems to load images from websites they host, which is commonly referred to as "offsite-linking". What can you do? You need to move your images somewhere else and link to them. Move them to a place that allows remote image loading (most do). Go to
FreeWebSpace.net to find a list of free web space providers. top
PROTECTED PAGES
Q: I protected one of my pages. Why can people still get in?
Remember to remove any old links to your protected page! If the menu on your home page still links to the unprotected version of the page, people can still see the page!
Here's a quick example on how to change the link on your home page: Let's say your user name at 4AF is "Anthony". Let's say the URL for your homepage menu is: http://members.aol.com/tonythegreat or http://members.aol.com/tonythegreat/index.html And let's say the page you'd like to protect is page3.html, so the full URL for it would be: http://members.aol.com/tonythegreat/page3.html In your homepage menu, look for the link to the page you want to protect (In this case you'd be looking for http://members.aol.com/tonythegreat/page3.html) and replace it with a link to your password gate at: http://www.4allfree.com/cgi/pp.id?Anthony Go to your 4AF control panel and click the CONFIG button for your Protected Page. Now enter the full URL http://members.aol.com/tonythegreat/page3.html into one of the PROTECTED PAGE fields. Choose a log in and a password for this protected page and you're all set! You can even choose a page that people will see if they type in the wrong password. (For example a page where you sell the correct password.)
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Q: Can I have more than 7 logins?
No, not in the moment.
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Q: Is this a child safety gate for pornography?
No. Our password gates are not adult gateways. We do not allow our password gates to be used on adult sites.
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Q: Can i hide the URL of my protected page?
Yes, you can hide the URL by using frames. How you do it? Create a new web page (for example: member.html) and link to this page and not directly to your 4AF protected page anymore. Include the following HTML code into the new page (change title and username):
<html>
<head><title>title</title></head>
<frameset rows="100%,*" border=0 frameborder=0 framespacing=0>
<frame src="http://4allfree.com/cgi/pp.id?username">
<noframes><body>Sorry, this page requires frames!</body></noframes>
</frameset>
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