FreeToastHost.org Tips
May 10
You cannot access the raw files of a FreeToastHost site. You cannot upload your own web pages and CSS files, and you cannot save the website to your hard drive. To back up a FreeToastHost site, you mainly make sure you have a copy of the website images, and then save the contents of each editable page. Here’s how to backup your FreeToastHost pages: http://www.screenr.com/bj9.
FreeToastHost provides 11 themes (color schemes and banner images) for you to choose from. You can preview them before changing your site’s theme. The problem with http://www.freetoasthost.org/themes/ is that it’s outdated… they updated the themes to use the blue TI logo instead of the coat of arms, and changed some other things in some of the themes. Some, like the TI theme, appear to be broken and don’t display correctly.
Changing the theme is really easy, as long as you love one of the 11 options available: in the admin area, open “Website Settings,” scroll down to “Choose Color Scheme,” pick one, then scroll to the bottom of the page and click “Update Settings.”
As a general design note, simple is good, just like a business card. You want to be attractive enough to avoid looking unprofessional, without doing so much in the design that you draw attention to the design itself, away from the content. The design of a website is the frame: your content is the beautiful painting. In other words, a website should look simple, clean and neat, with only a few fonts, a few colors, and plenty of whitespace, showing well-organized, easy to read content
I’m guessing what you’re thinking is “but if I do that, how do I draw attention to everything important?” Ah, that’s the trick. What is truly important? You can’t draw the viewer’s attention in a dozen ways at once. Emphasize the one or two things that are most important, and make the rest easy to find. You may want to think about breaking up the content into multiple pages, thinking carefully about what needs to be on the front page.
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