Future World Site Banners, Links, and Meta-Tags
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Adding banner ads, bi-directional links and modified meta-tags to cloned Future World sites isn't possible, because your cloned site is actually a digital mirror-image of The Future World Master site. Any changes, links, or banners added to your site would also be added to everyone else's site, and their links and banners would be added to yours creating a confusing mix of images that no one could understand. In many cases, adding banners and links is also undesirable, since these usually just lure your site visitors away to someone's site after you have gone to all the effort to get them to visit your site. So, where is the benefit?
In a few selected instances, banners and links can be useful. And, in these cases, uncloned, standalone versions of your personalized Internet site are available with a Sphere subscription. Standalone Sphere Sites can be modified and added to in any way you wish. And, they offer many other benefits. A Sphere subscription costs only a little more than a regular Future World subscription. For more details, visit the Sphere Information site.
There is another way to accomplish this, by building access pages of your own, on your own web space, that give a personal introduction to your Future World web site. Then, simply create a link to your Future World site from your intro site.
You can create these introductory pages on free space that is given to you by your ISP (Internet Service Provider), or free web space available from several sites on the Net, or space that you rent for a very small monthly fee from Virtual Web Hosts such as Future World. (Our hosting rates are displayed at the Sphere Information Site.) But, remember that you receive free hosting with a Sphere subscription, which is extremely economical. So, be sure to compare costs and benefits before renting Web Space somewhere else.
Once you have created one or more of these introductory pages on your own web space, you can:
The final step is to link your Intro pages to your Future World page by adding a line such as the one that follows to your HTML code.
<A HREF="future-world.com/cgi-bin/catalog/XXXXX">CLICK HERE!</A>
(The "XXXXX" in the above link line should be replaced with your 5-digit Future World Comm number and "CLICK HERE" can be replaced with any word or phrase that you wish you visitors to click on to take them to your Personalized Future World Site.)
If you are unfamiliar with using HTML (Hyper-Text Mark-up Language) to write your own intro pages, you'll find extensive step-by-step HTML instruction at the following sites:
Allan Amory's
HTML Tutor. Please note you
will need to download the tutor to your machine.
(NB: All software © 1996 Alan Amory. No portion
of the software may be sold in any form
what-so-ever. For students and staff of the
University of Natal this software is freeware.
All other users must apply for a license). Kathy Murrell's "A Guide to HTML". This
document is designed to assist novice HTML
authors. Justin Webber's,
"Pocket Guide to HTML 3.0" at https://computing.net/html/pocket.html is a
comprehensive guide to the basics of HTML. Internet Literacy
Consultants(tm)'s Glossary of Internet
Terms available from https://www.matisse.net/files/glossary.html which explains
most of the commonly used internet jargon.
To make this process even easier, we have prepared an actual sample intro page that you can copy and then modify in any way that you wish. You can view it by clikcing on it's address below:
https://future-world.com/sample.intro.htm
Here is the HTML text used to create the sample.intro.htm page:
To use the page you'll find there, you'll need to make two small modifications:
(1) Change the
XXXXX's
in the "<A HREF" line to your 5-digit Comm Number so that this page will link
to your Future World site.
(2) Change the automatic link time in line 2 of the above HTML page from
1000
seconds to
1
second. In other words, just remove the three zeroes after the 1 in the "<MET
A HTTP-EQUIV" line.
Since this sample page doesn't include any graphics, you can cut and paste the contents of the page into your word-processor and make any modifications you wish such as, adding meta-tags, banner ads, links or any other changes that you wish. Redesign the wording, the colors, and add pictures or other information. Then, paste your finished page into your free site space and it's ready to go. Since intro pages are HTML-based, robotic search engines can easily access them. This should allow you to do everything you wish with banners, links and meta-tags.
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