Free Nonprofit Web Space FAQ

Huntington County Community Network, Inc. offers free web space to nonprofit organizations that are headquartered in Huntington County. What follows are some frequently asked questions (FAQ) about this free service and their answers.

Any nonprofit organization that has its headquarters in Huntington County, Indiana, is eligible to receive free web space from Huntington County Community Network, Inc., if it is either recognized as a nonprofit organization by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service or it is a charitable, artistic, health or social service organization.

For-profit businesses are not eligible for free web space from Huntington County Community Network, Inc., nor are individuals who wish to publish personal web pages. A huge number of web hosting companies who will host business web sites for nominal fees can be found on the web. Individuals can find free space for personal web pages on such sites as GeoCities, Tripod, Angelfire, and AOL Hometown.

A nonprofit organization need not be incorporated to receive free web space from Huntington County Community Network, Inc.

A nonprofit organization need not be recognized by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service as a nonprofit organization as defined by Section 501(c)(3) or any other section of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code to receive free web space from Huntington County Community Network, Inc.

A nonprofit organization may use its free web space as it chooses, to publish web pages about the organization, its services, or any other information of value to users of the World Wide Web. All content must comply, however, with the acceptable use policy of Huntington County Community Network, Inc. 

In addition, every web site we host must include each of the following:

1. A link to HCCN's home page - something similar to, "This site hosted as a community service of Huntington County Community Network, Inc."
2. A link to an e-mail address for someone who is responsible for your site.
3. A disclaimer that indicates that the hosted organization is solely responsible for all content on its site.

Huntington County Community Network, Inc., does not currently limit the amount of free web space it gives to nonprofit organizations. Huntington County Community Network, Inc. reserves the right, however, to limit space in the future, should such an action become necessary.

The URLs (web addresses) of all nonprofit web sites hosted by Huntington County Community Network, Inc., currently have one of the following formats:

www.huntingtoncounty.org/directory_name

or 

directory_name.huntingtoncounty.org

The "directory_name" part of the above address represents your organization’s name or an abbreviation of the name. For example, the URL for Huntington County Habitat for Humanity is

www.huntingtoncounty.org/habitat

and the URL for Huntington County Safe Kids is

safekids.huntingtoncounty.org

Yes! Huntington County Community Network, Inc., is able to host web sites that have their own domain names! Contact our webmaster for more information.

Huntington County Community Network, Inc., is a small, completely volunteer organization. Our members unfortunately do not have the time to create web pages for other organizations. 

We do provide, however, a way to help organizations find volunteers who will create web pages for them. Visit the Huntington County Web Volunteer Clearinghouse.

Depending upon your organization’s resources, you have several options.

1. Acquire a copy of Microsoft FrontPage and have one of your members use it to create your web pages. FrontPage is fairly easy to learn and works much like Microsoft Word.
2. Visit the Huntington City-Township Public Library, where you can have free use of a computer that has Microsoft FrontPage installed.
3. Visit the Huntington County Web Volunteer Clearinghouse to see what web designers have volunteered to help organizations like yours, and to make your needs known.
4. Contact a local school to see if any of its students have web building skills they will volunteer.
5. Hire a professional web design firm. Several freelance web designers work in Huntington County.

Organizations may use Microsoft FrontPage or file transfer protocol (FTP) to publish (upload) their web pages to the Huntington County Community Network, Inc., server. In the future, it might be possible to publish web pages via web browsers.  A tutorial of sorts on uploading your files to our server via FTP can be found at http://www.huntingtoncounty.org/faq/publishing.htm.

Huntington County Community Network, Inc. does not have Internet access services to provide. Your organization (or one of its members) must have your own Internet access, or use one of the computers at the Huntington City-Township Public Library to upload and maintain your web pages.

Yes! Huntington County Community Network, Inc., now supports the use of CGI scripts, Active Server Pages (ASP), PHP and other similar advanced technologies with our free web space for nonprofit organizations. We also fully support the features of Microsoft FrontPage extensions.

Just fill out the application form! Our webmaster will send your webmaster an email with your FrontPage account name and password.

Absolutely! If your web site contains information about Huntington County, Indiana, we will be happy to link to it. Non-profit, business and personal sites are welcome, as long as they have a strong Huntington County connection. Just fill out the link request form! We do not charge any fee for listing web sites in Huntington County's most comprehensive web index.

If you have a question that this FAQ didn’t answer, please send an email to our webmaster. We will respond as soon as possible.