What Free Site Should I Use to Create My Own Website - Freewebs.com?

1Time · Jan 19, 2008

I am fairly new to building my own website and recently found freewebs.com.

Is anyone else using this site? Or, are there better free alternatives out there?

I want to use my site for providing information and instruction and displaying a few items for sale.

Thanks

JamesXP · Jan 19, 2008

Selling things -> Craigslist/eBay

Freewebs is okay, there's quite a few.

Try x10 hosting

OR... just make your own web server.

1Time · Jan 19, 2008

JamesXP said:
Selling things -> Craigslist/eBay

Right, for selling I use CL, eBay, backpage.com, and Google Base. I just want my site to include the items for sale that relate to the information and instruction it provides.

JamesXP said:
Freewebs is okay, there's quite a few.

This is pretty much why I started this thread. I am hoping to get input from those who use a free site like freewebs.com to create their own site.

JamesXP said:
Try x10 hosting

x10 Hosting does not look like it's free, and at a glance it does not look very user friendly or easy to use.

JamesXP said:
OR... just make your own web server.

I'm looking for a free and easy solution. For my needs I suspect a free and easy service will be more than adequate. And so I see no need to invest the time and expense in setting up and maintaining a server.

Thanks, JamesXP, for your suggestions.

ccb056 · Jan 19, 2008

Google Apps supports basic web hosting, and you can even have your own email addresses that use the gmail servers.

1Time · Jan 19, 2008

ccb056 said:
Google Apps supports basic web hosting, and you can even have your own email addresses that use the gmail servers.

Not free - you have to buy a domain name for $10 per year. I see no reason to pay for this since it is offered elsewhere for free.

Thanks anyway ccb056.

dylskee · Jan 19, 2008

You can look into THIS as an option, I haven't looked it over in detail yet but I'm considering it myself. As far as a domain name I think thats going to cost you no matter where you go, but for $10./year thats not bad.

1Time · Jan 19, 2008

dylskee said:
You can look into THIS as an option, I haven't looked it over in detail yet but I'm considering it myself.

That one's not free either - $9.95 / year for a domain name. Not knocking it - I just know of no benefit of using it for $9.95 over a totally free service.

dylskee said:
As far as a domain name I think thats going to cost you no matter where you go, but for $10./year thats not bad.

Freewebs.com assigns a name for free so its service is totally free. And I agree $10 / year is not bad at all, although I have seen them for a little less. I would consider paying for use of a domain name IF there was some benefit in doing so that I considered worthwhile over using a totally free service.

Thanks, dylskee, for your suggestions.

JamesXP · Jan 19, 2008

http://x10hosting.com/hosting/signup/adfree

This free.

www.w3schools.org too. (learn little giblets of HTML)

1Time · Jan 19, 2008

JamesXP said:
http://x10hosting.com/hosting/signup/adfree

As far as I can tell, x10 Hosting requires you to pay for a domain name or pay to have one transferred. Here's a post from their forum about this.

JamesXP said:
This free.

www.w3schools.org too. (learn little giblets of HTML)

That site sure does not look anything like user friendly or easy to use, and I even know basic HTML. And it is stated on that site that the domain may be for sale by its owner.

Thanks, JamesXP, for your suggestions.

JamesXP · Jan 19, 2008

Oops, wrong link...

http://www.w3schools.com/

1Time · Jan 19, 2008

JamesXP said:
Oops, wrong link...

http://www.w3schools.com/

Looks like a valuable resource if wanting to learn HTML et., but I don't. Just want an easy and free way to put up a website.

However, I did find this of interest on that site:

Internet Joke
Customer: "I want to download the Internet. Do I need a bigger hard disk?"

Download the internet here: http://www.w3schools.com/downloadwww.htm

Thanks, JamesXP, for your suggestions.

JamesXP · Jan 19, 2008

www.bravehost.com

But it's plagued with ads...

You could even do a blog type thing..

www.wordpress.com

cliffboss · Jan 19, 2008

HERE

I use this for the last 3+years, no ads, the plan are very generous. It is pay by post tho, it is not that bad.

1Time · Jan 19, 2008

JamesXP said:
www.bravehost.com

But it's plagued with ads...

It's not free - $8.95 / year for the domain name. I'm guessing there are a lot more not free website services than there are free ones.

JamesXP said:
You could even do a blog type thing..

www.wordpress.com

A blog would not serve my needs nearly as well as my own website.

Thanks, JamesXP, for your suggestions.

1Time · Jan 19, 2008

cliffboss said:
HERE

I use this for the last 3+years, no ads, the plan are very generous. It is pay by post tho, it is not that bad.

And so it is not a free service.

After 5 minutes or so of reading the main site and the forum, I was only able to determine the level of service you get and its cost depends on the number of posts you make. I was not able to find the cost of any level of service.

Thanks, cliffboss, for your suggestion.

JamesXP · Jan 19, 2008

Get your own domain...

www.freedomains.co.nr

And you can get a free subdomain with bravehost... ????

http://jamesradio.bravehost.com/ < one of my subdomains.

1Time · Jan 19, 2008

JamesXP said:
Get your own domain...

www.freedomains.co.nr

A free domain name is of no use to me. These "free" sites still would charge annually for use of my previously acquired free domain.

JamesXP said:
And you can get a free subdomain with bravehost... ????

http://jamesradio.bravehost.com/ < one of my subdomains.

I did not find mention of a free subdomain in the few minutes I looked over bravehost.com earlier. Looking through the sites suggested so far has been a researching battle to find the details of their "free" services.

So bravehost.com can be used totally free with a free subdomain? If so, then I can now compare it to freewebs.com. I am fairly certain freewebs.com provides a free subdomain as well, but not a free domain name.

Thanks, JamesXP, for your suggestions.

JamesXP · Jan 19, 2008

Not many places give you a free domain... not normal ones anyway....

there's .tk, .co.nr, .co....?

but not .com .us or anything ismiliar.

1Time · Jan 19, 2008

JamesXP said:
Not many places give you a free domain... not normal ones anyway....

there's .tk, .co.nr, .co....?

but not .com .us or anything ismiliar.

Yes, from what research I've done, it looks like domain names are not free for the taking and can't be used anywhere for free. And, it seems like there may be very few sites that are truly free and provide a subdomain name like freewebs.com.

Thanks, JamesXP, for your help.

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