• Free Web Pages •
FreeSites If you're looking for a place to put your web page, try some of these free sites. As with life, there's no such thing as a free lunch and most free sites have their drawbacks.

AngelFire
Angelfire offers 5 meg of free space to homesteaders. You may use it to advertise your own business but you may not have other paid adverts on your page. They have a library of graphics you can use to build your page. Downside is a pop-up advert on each of your pages.

Crosswinds
Crosswinds offers unlimited web page space and an e-mail address. It can be used for a personal web page only. May not have advertising banners that generate revenue. The sites are broken down into "areas" with various themes. Apparently, they do not require a banner on their pages nor do they have pop-up banners, etc on your pages however, their server is painfully slow.

CyberCities
This service offers unlimited bandwidth,25 meg of space, and no ads or banners. Completely free. They also offer a free pop e-mail account. They also have domain hosting services and use the monies to support the free services.

Dreamwater
You get a nice assortment of free services with this one including 30MB Free Web Space (and more if you need it!) Free Guestbook, Free Chat Board, Free Form Email, Free Web Page Builder, Free Web Page Templates, Free Clip Art, Search Engine Submission, Unlimited Bandwidth, Unlimited Hits, No Annoying Pop-Up Banners !

FortuneCity
FortuneCity offers a free 20 meg site with an e-mail address for creating your personal web site. This is a themed site and your page must be placed in the appropriate area. A FortuneCities banner is automatically inserted at the top of each of your pages.

GeoCities
Geocities offers 10 meg for free with e-mail address as well as a lot of extras that you can add. You cannot place advertising banners on your site. This is a "themed" site and your page must fit within the theme of the area in which you are homesteading. The downside is, your visitors will have to put up with an annoying pop-up banner on each page they visit unless the homesteader displays the large advertising banner on each page.

Homestead
Homestead offers a free 12 meg site with a very nice on-line interface for creating your site. They make their site-building software available for downloading so you can work on your web pages when you're off-line. They automatically insert a banner that goes across the entire bottom part of your screen.

HyperMart
Hypermart allows small and large businesses to host a free a domain or sub domain (no personal pages). They provide 10 megs and CGI functionality. If you don't know HTML or don't want to create your own site, Hypermart maintains an extensive database of Hypermart members who will help you create your site. If you use the free site, you must put an advertising banner on each page.

Tripod
Tripod offers 11 meg of space to be used as you wish. They have a lot of extras you can add on including your own chat room. Downside is a advertising banner pop-up on every page. You can purchase more space if needed.

Virtual Ave
Virtual Avenue offers free business hosting service on the web. They offer free 20 Mb disk space, CGI access, SSI, Frontpage,FTP support and more. They require that you put a banner ad on the top of each page on your site. Those that don't insert the banner code will have a pop-up advert. They also include a free e-mail account.

XOOM
Xoom offers homesteaders unlimited free web site space as well as your own e-mail address. The downside is that they insert a big frame type banner across the top of each page with adverts. You can use your space for a small business. You'll also get e-mail at least once a week with adverts from them. This isn't bad since it only annoys you and not your visitors.


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