Freeservers

Summary:
URL- http://www.freeservers.com
Description- Free Servers offers web hosting and a very-hard-to-kill ad banner! They don't have Popup ads (thank God!) but their banners are not easy to kill. Here are some possible solutions:

This should kill the banner ad for you:

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Your Title Goes Here</TITLE>
<TITLE><FRAMESET></TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<!-- Your page goes here -->
</BODY>
</HTML>



See it in action at http://pumd.scriptmania.com

Special thanks to "The M-Continuum" for sending in this tip.

This trick seems to work for now! Sure enough, I visited his page,and the Ad wasn't there... using the EMBED tag to surround the code, you can effectively hide it from a web browser. This does cause one problem though. Using this script you CAN'T set the background color of your web page using BGCOLOR in the BODY tag. This causes a slight problem but, using Javascript you can fix this. (See the other little trick down beneath this one)

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Your Title Goes Here</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<NOEMBED>
<XMP>
<!--
<body>
-->
</XMP>
</NOEMBED>
<BODY>
<!-- Your page goes here -->
</BODY>
</HTML>


Use this little Javascript to set the background color of your Web page.

There are 140 literal color definenitions in HTML. You can set the background color of your page by putting this script between the BODY tags of your document. If you need some help finding a color please see the ZSPC Super Color Chart. (will open in a new window). Just substitute the word 'white' for the color of your own choice:

<script>
<!--
document.bgColor = ('white');
-->
</script>


Here is another solution that was working for me. The only problem seems to be that you can't use Javascript commands inside the NOSCRIPT tag.

<html>
<head>
<title>Your title goes here</title>
</head>
<noscript>
<body>
<!-- Your page goes here -->

Here's my page if you want to see it in action - http://pumd.scriptmania.com/


Special thanks to joshuax for sending this tip in to us.

This basically works by passing the browser bad HTML. The only problem is that you can't set your background color using the BODY tag. So, you have to use the Javascript trick above to set the background color. Here's the trick:

<html>
<head>
<title>your title</title>
<title><body></title>
</head>
-- yourpage --
</html>

You can see it in action here: http://importdesigns.8m.com. It works by using a title tag that is not valid to mess up Freeservers banner, by throwing the banner where IE, and netscape cant display it. Joshuax goes on to say that this trick also works on Hypermart with small modifications.


Special thanks to MADSKILL for this trick. If you use FRAMES the trick above won't work. But, you can do something similar by adding a FRAMESET tag between the fake TITLE tags. Freeservers either looks for a BODY tag, or a FRAMESET tag. For example:

<html>
<head>
<title>your title</title>
<title><frameset rows='65,*' border=0></title>
</head>

<!-- Your REAL frameset goes down here -->
<frameset rows="100%">
<frame src="http://www.yourserver.com/pathto/yourreal/homepage.html" name="main">
</frameset>

</html>


You can see it in action here: http://www.silentones.8m.com/main.html




If these don't work for you... please don't email me to tell me they don't work! Instead, go sign up for a Freeservers account and try to figure out a solution that DOES work. Then, when you have a working solution to get rid of the banner email it to me. Sometimes these work, sometimes they don't. What can I say?





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