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About Village Local

Villagelocal is about 100% FREE web page hosting. This is not your typical 'web hosting' service but rather a host where non-techy people could create their own web pages easily. No programming or systems administration required, simply sign up, login and start creating your site.

All sites are given a chance to show up in the list of community sites, each site has a corresponding image that you can customize like 'avatars' to show off. These images may also be included as a map of each village.

Please note that the list of sites are currently hand-moderated, so any attempts of spamming or uploading of illegal content will be closely watched and shut down if found.

Features:

Multiple templates - switch any time, any page
Basic sitemaps, Google sitemaps
Image galleries
Flexible content, text, images and media
Multiple domains *
Multiple page trees *
Friendly urls
Accessible menus
Contact forms *

* - by request to prevent abuse

Any limits?

Unmetered space for files & content
Upload limit of 500k per file

So, what are the rules when I join?

No hateful / vulgar content or promotion of violence and anything that is harmful for others.
Pornographic material like images / text / videos or other forms of adult media are not allowed.
Leaving the site empty for a long period of time will cause for it to be deleted.
Hosting of illegal content/software, hacking tools will not be accepted and will be removed without notice.
Sites should have useful content, be informative or should provide some means of entertainment for the visitors ... attempting to gather links or other means to solely promote other sites will not be accepted.

Frequently asked questions [FAQ]

General info

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Will I have my own email?

If you have registered your own domain and is already pointed to this server, you may request an email account to the admin (admin @ villagelocal.com)

Upon approval you may then get to access your emails:

https://villagelocal.com:2096

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Your services are great, how can I help?

We need more images for houses, pixel art, etc. Any contribution is very much appreciated. A link back to your site will be put in our artists page as thanks.

You may spread the word too to your friends.

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Web page use

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I just changed domain from my root tree, will my backend address change now?

No it won't, you will still use the same backend login url as before.

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I'd like to change my domain, is that possible? Can I have multiple domains?

Yes, from your administration page select Web - List - then select the top level page and you will find your domain record. Edit it as desired but for the changes to take effect you will need to contact admin@villagelocal.com to regenerate the links from your old site. If you want to create a new site then it's best to create a new page, add a domain and build up from there.

Multiple domain is possible, but you will have to request this feature first to admin(at)villagelocal.com . This feature is disabled to prevent abuse. You will also need your new domain to point to villagelocal's nameservers, please consult your domain registrar on how to do this.

Here are villagelocal's nameservers:

ns753.hostgator.com

ns754.hostgator.com

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Can I switch templates?

Yes, simply right click on the root page to get to the page properties and down below you can select the themes.

Web > Select top level page > edit page properties

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I'd like to place a picture of my web home! how do I do that?

To replace the default 'house' picture, please login to your administration page, then click on Web - List - Click on the top level of your page tree (a menu appears) then select 'edit page properties', find the field 'Files' and upload a picture from there.

Please keep in mind that images there are resized to 228 width.

Note: if you cannot find any field called 'files' then try changing the page type to 'Advanced'.

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Site use

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Are there any rules in uploading a house picture?

Yes:

1. Image must either be a gif or png

2. No background, keep the transparency

3. Make it an image of a 'home', unrelated images will be removed

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I would like to report an error, whom do I call?

Please send bug reports to admin(at)villagelocal.com

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How do I create a site?

If you have already registered and logged in to the our site you now have access to sign up for site creation. To get to that page you must be logged in.

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I lost my login information, whom do I call for help?