Among the free web hosts are web hosts that provide domain hosting (that is, you can host your own domain there), Perl access, PHP access, ASP, MySQL, site builders, etc. Note that free web hosts often put some sort of advertising on your site. Does Using a Web Host Mean that My Files Belong to Them? What Happens If My Web Host Goes Out of Business? Or If They Shut Down My Website? Should You Choose a Linux or a Windows Web Hosting Package? Is There Such a Thing as a Mac Web Host? Which Web Host Do You Use? Note: for historical reasons, this What's New column also includes information from thesitewizard.com's news feed and HowToHaven.com's news feed . New article: How to Convert Your Website from XHTML 1.0 to HTML5 the Quick and Easy Way. This guide takes you through the process of converting a website from XHTML 1.0 to HTML5 using the Fiverizer software. New software: Fiverizer: convert a website from XHTML 1.0 to HTML5.
If you have one or more websites written in XHTML 1.0, this program (which may be downloaded and used free of charge) lets you convert them to HTML5 without having to muck around with rewriting HTML and adding CSS. The Feedback Form Wizard has been fixed so that it can now, once again, create the CAPTCHA versions (ReCAPTCHA and hCaptcha) of the script. Apparently, somewhere along the line, I seem to have broken it during one of my internal updates. I'm very sorry for the inconvenience. Note: you do not have to recreate your script if you successfully generated it before. The problem was that under certain conditions, the wizard choked and died before it could generate a script. Updated: The Free Mobile-Friendly Layout Wizard has been updated. It will now place the meta charset tag before the title in the head section (so that it will be in the first 1 KB of your page even if you have a long title).
In addition, if you select HTML5 as the output type, the shorter meta charset tag will be used. Steam Audio has been added to the Free Audio Libraries and Source Code page. This is an open source, cross-platform C library with plugins for Unity, Unreal Engine and FMOD Studio. Added Intel's open source monospace font to the Free Programmers' Fonts page. This one is designed to reduce developers' eyestrain and fatigue, and was made with people with poor eyesight in mind as well. GUI library has been added to the Free GUI Libraries and Source Code page. A new Python compiler has been added to the Free Python Compilers and Interpreters page. This one compiles your code to native machine code, without any runtime dependencies. The script generated by the Feedback Form Wizard has been updated to improve compatibility with PHP 8 (eg, 8.0, 8.1, etc). Another service has been added to the Free File Sharing and Storage page.
This one lets you upload up to 2 GB and set an expiry date for your files. Compilers and Interpreters page. The newest addition to the Free Font Managers page lets you do just that. It allows you to temporarily install a font that will be available to all programs running in the system, as long as the manager is active. A new free, open source photo editor for Windows has been added to the Free Drawing and Painting Software, Image and Photo Editors page. This one does not even need to be installed, and can be placed on a USB stick. Compilers and Interpreters page. The development system itself runs on Windows and macOS. Note that if you simply want to write Windows or macOS programs, you can also get normal compilers for those tasks from that page. A new Windows resource editor has been added to the Free Resource Editors, Compilers and Icon Editors.
For those unfamiliar with what this is, a resource editor (in this context) is a type of software that lets you create dialog boxes, icons, cursors and other "resources" needed in a Windows program. They are usually used by programmers when they create a program, but can also be used by (say) webmasters to create icons (sometimes known as favicons) for their website. A new Eiffel compiler has been added to the Free Compilers and Interpreters for Miscellaneous Programming Languages page. A new open source Amiga emulator has been added to the Free Amiga Emulators page. This one runs on ARM-based boards like the Raspberry Pi, but if you can also find emulators for Windows, macOS, and Linux on the page. New page: How to Set the Height of a DIV Relative to a Browser Window (CSS). This article answers a visitor's question on how to set the height of a DIV (or even other elements) so that it is a percentage of the browser window/viewport.
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