Here's a small tip: you can turn your free web space, offered to you as part of your broadband connection, in to a fully-fledged website with its own URL.

For instance, instead of www.yourispname/users/yourname, you could give your friends and family www.yourname.com and, when they enter that URL within their web browser, it takes them to your website.

Better still, why not turn your computer's 'always on' broadband connection into your website? It's possible, even if you are provided with a dynamic IP address. (A dynamic IP address is an internet address that changes every time you connect to the internet and often changes if you leave your router unattended for long periods.)

DynDNS Updater is a tool that, combined with an online dynamic redirection service, will constantly check your computer's IP address and make sure that your online redirection service points to the current IP address.

In simple terms, this means that if you registered www.yourname.com, when someone enters www.yourname.com in to their web browser, you could be directly them to a website hosted on your computer. To the end user, they simply think that www.yourname.com is a commercial website.

You can also use DynDNS Updater, alongside an FTP server, to setup an FTP service on your computer, so if a user enters ftp.yourname.com they are redirected to an FTP site hosted by your computer.