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 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 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.
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.
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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.