Free web page tools can add interactivity to your web site. You can get valuable feedback from your customers, and add various features to your web site.

     Some popular types of web page tools include guestbooks, link pages, e-mail forms, hit counters, search engines, quizzes, etc. The only catch is that free web page tools commonly incorporate some kind of advertising with them. If you can see past the advertisements, the tools are really quite useful.

• Guestbooks

A guestbook is a tool that keeps a collection of user's opinions and comments on your web site. It usually looks like a list of entries containing the person, their comment and some other details about them. In most cases you can edit the way the guestbook looks.

• Link Page

A link page is a page that has a list of links that users have submitted. That way users can link to related sites, or add a link leading to their web page.

• E-Mail Forms

E-Mail forms allow the users to fill out a form on your site and have it mailed directly to you. Quite useful for getting formatted input from your users.

• Hit Counters

Hit counters keep track of how many people have visited your site. For more information about hit counters go to our "Putting Counters on your Site" article.

• Search Engines

Some services even include a search engine on your web site than can do a search for sites related to yours. They can also search your web site for information a user needs.

• Quizzes

Quizzes are a neat little feature that can entertain your users. You can edit the questions, answers and other things.

     There are of course more tools depending on the provider. In this tutorial, we're going to discuss four providers of free web page tools, TenZero, Beseen, Bravenet and 1-2-3 Webtools.

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