Large, commercial sites spend millions developing and managing their web sites.   However, troop web sites are at the opposite end of the spectrum.   This list of resources is designed to give the Boy Scout troop access to FREE or very low cost programs for creating web pages and managing the web site.

• Microsoft FrontPage Express  (Free) 
  This web page editor is included with Internet Explorer 4.0 (also free). 
  It is very easy to use and has much of the functionality of the full FrontPage Editor.
   
• Microsoft Photo Editor  (Free) 
  This program can be used to resize and crop images and is included free with Microsoft Office.   It also allows you to take a bit map (.bmp) from a scanner and convert it to a JPEG (.jpg) image.
  
• WS_FTP Limited Edition   (Free)
  File Transfer Program (FTP) that is free for non-business use.  Also, it's easy to use.
  
• Web Space
  HotBot Homepages  (Free) [supported by advertising on your site]
  Up to 5 MB free space plus access to image libraries and development utilities.
  Server101   (Free) [supported by advertising on your site] Up to 11 MB.
  Tripod  (Free) [supported by advertising on your site] Up to 11 MB.
  
• Rank This - Find out where you rank in a number of search engines
  Position Agent - another source to check your search engine ranking

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Last modified: June 06, 2009