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The Institute for Humanist Studies (IHS),has developed its own website hosting service, and is now able to offer free websites and email to all IHEU member organizations. The websites we host are independent of IHS, and do not carry any adverts. We are happy to accept sites already hosted elsewhere, but we are especially interested in facilitating a web presence for those organizations that are new to the online community or might not otherwise be able to own a website.

Bring your organization into the cyberage with a website and e-mail on Humanists.net.

No charge to IHEU groups!

IHEU groups receive:·

* 20 MB advert-free website space

* E-mail account(s) as required

* Professional 24/7 tech support ·

* Friendly, helpful technical staff (humanist activists like you!)

* A link on our index page Your webmaster has access to:·

* MS Front Page extensions ·

* CGI apps (FormMail and more) ·

* PHP

* MySQL ·

* Online technical documentation ·

* Webmaster resources on our site ·

Visit http://humanists.net today, or e-mail to learn more about getting your group on the Web.

Our web hosting service is part of the Institute's commitment to cooper- ation and innovation in promoting humanism. The Institute has been offering website hosting through its humanists.net project for over a year and we already host over 40 independent humanist sites, including the websites of several national humanist organizations.

Most groups use our third-level domain sites — with an address like

www.yourgroup.humanists.net

For name recognition purposes, some get a 'vanity name' like www.your- group.org which can be set up to redirect to the humanists.net address. In both cases email addresses will be through humanists.net, for example

yourgroup@humanists.net

For IHEU member organizations that require a genuine primary level domain with domain-specific e-mail addresses @yourgroup.org, the Institute now offers that service as well.

Free email is available to groups in both programs, and can be used as POP accounts as well as forwarding accounts or aliases. And all human- ists.net e-mail can now be checked on the web from any online computer anywhere in the world!

Please note that in offering to host sites, IHS is not offering to develop and maintain the content of the sites. We can give informal assistance if you have specific technical or design questions about your site; and our hosting company makes available a number of online educational resources and web-building tools for our users.The Institute would like to be able to provide more help to webmasters, and also to help groups with little or no web expertise among their members. To this end, we are com- pleting webmaster resource pages where webmasters can share their ideas, problems, and technology.

We also hope that webmasters will volunteer their expertise to help groups who need assistance in launching or developing their web pres- ence. Anyone who is interested in learning more about the Humanists.net hosting project, or in offering to be a webmaster mentor, should visit our website at http://www.humanists.net. You can also email Mary Ellen Sikes, IHS Associate Director, with any questions about the humanists.net project, at .