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REVIEW OF THE GLOBE.COM

REVIEW OF INERGY.COM

REVIEW OF GO.COM

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THE GLOBE.COM

The Globe.com has a fast and easy registration process, easy navagation to your file manager and fast response times. They give you 12 Mbytes of disk space, support subdirectories, and have a photo uploader at the bottom of your file manager page. They also have good FTP support with fast response times so you can easily transload to The Globe but they do not allow hyphens in a file name so if you use them you have to change them to an underscore before transferring. This rule also applies to your file diretory. In transloading, files with the same file name will be overwritten which is a "plus" to me. It seems that the Globe has everything one would want in a host server exept for one thing; The html editor page has a side bar that makes the text area narrow similar to Angelfire. Also it is limited in file size to 15 KB which equivelent to a page of text that you might scroll down only 5 or 6 times. For thse reasons I don't use their editor but have this site mirrored on Tripod where I edit the pages then transload them here to The Globe. This is why the file overwrite abilty is important to me. If you can work around the html editor or use their quick page builder instead then you should find a happy home at The Globe.com

INERGY.COM

Inergy is basiclly a computer products company who has put their "Web Desk 2000" software program on line as a demo. Their goal is to sell you the software for $59.95 but you need a computer to use it. In thier demo they will give you 2 MB of disk space where you can build a website but the site building procedures are very different from the other major servers and will take a little getting use to. They offer lots of page building tools for you to use and although the html editor is full screen wide, it is only about 7 rows high so you might want to use this site for a "no html" quick page but not for writing an html page. There is no subdirectory support that I could find. I found no FTP support there and without that you can't transload so I don't recommend Inergy.com for use with Webtv.

GO.COM

Go.com has made some changes to what used to be WBS.com. Signing up is a little tricky because you have to first customize a "start-up" or "home page" on Go.com which has nothing to do with your website. Since "Go" is owned by Disney it is aimed at the other Disney subsidiaries, ABC, ESPN, Infoseek, etc. You will get a lot of their information on this start-up page and it is required that you choose subjects from each for your page. I had a hard time with this because in their sports catagory they did not list auto racing but insisted that I choose a sport. I think I ended up with something like womens volleyball or something that I don't remember. Anyway, The next problem is finding your website and file manager. At the top of the page is an options bar. One of the options is "Community". If you click there and scroll down you will find "Homepages". Click there and on the next page at the top of the collumn you will find an option to edit/create your homepage. Clicking there will take you to the login page and then to your file directory. Save this page to your favorites so that you don't have to go through all that again. Now let me tell you about the file manager. First of all your get unlimited disk space so your site can be as big as you want. Second, you can create as many subdirectories as you want. Third, there are three page builders you can use depending on your skils. A basic builder that does it all for you, an intermediate builder where you have a little more control over your page, and a "pro" builder which gives you a blank page in the html editor for you to write your own html document. The html editor is full screen just like Tripod or Geocities and the whole file manager is very easy to use. So far Go,com does not support FTP (File Transfer Protocal) so you cannot use a transloader to move files to Go.com. However, they do have a photo uploader right in your file manager and a link to their "Web Mover" which is a file uploader similar to the "EZ Transfer" at Talk City. You can use that to transfer files from anywhere on the web to your directory so you don't need a transloader. So far I have been unable to connect with my files at The Globe for transfer but files from Tripod were moved in just seconds. You can also move an entire directory at one time which is great for mirroring your site elsewhere. This server may be a very good place for Webtv'rs to build a website. I am still checkng it out further but am very pleased with what I have found so far.
NOTE: GO engeneers have been upgrading the Web Mover and it is working much better now. It is still not as dependable and the transloaders but without FTP support, it is the only way to move files to GO. I have been in frequent contact with them about this and they are still making improvements. The Web Mover has a problem when you try to move a page containing off-site links. Image files and other html files are moved very fast and no longer with any problem. I will remove this notice when the remaining problems are resolved so check back from time to time.

	THE GLOBE	INERGY	GO.COM
Disk Space	12 Mb	2 mb	no limit
Have Sub- directories	YES	NO	YES
WTV File Uploader	NO	NO	YES
Photo Uploader	YES	NO	YES
FTP Support	YES	NO	NO
HTML Editor	Small	Small	Large
Page BuildersEasy page builders are available on all servers
URL Elements	2 (short)	2 (short)	2 (short)