Free WEB Pages
If
you've been on the Web very long, you're no doubt
wondering what is involved in starting your own Web page.
Well, you've come to the right place. Below, we list
services that will give you FREE Web pages.In some cases,
these services will help you publish a Web site even if
you have no experience in writing HTML (the coding
language that is used to create Web pages).With many of
these services, the only work on your part is coming up
with content ideas for your Web page.The list of
possibilities is endless: you can publish your resume
on-line, publish a page devoted to your favorite hobby or
cause, create a page devoted to yourself and your
interests, or have a page that displays your family's
photos, etc. If you have a business, you can set up a
page for it.
- Free Yellow - This
popular free Web page provider offers two megs of
space for business or personal use. They feature
interactive forms that you may place on your site
with a simple cut & paste. There's other
goodies, like CGI stuff, nice graphics, counters,
sounds and more. No adults sites allowed.
- Earth Online - This free
Web page provider offer 6 megs of Web space, as
well as free E-mail, public forums and chat. You
must display their Java banner to participate. No
adult sites, pirated material or racist materials
allowed. Read their rules
- Max Pages - A free Web
page provider, Max Pages offers a number of
goodies, including an automatic table of contents
generator, a counter and lots of clipart (over
9,000 images). Note that Max Pages does not
create true HTML files and their limit is
expressed in pages, rather than megabytes.
(You're allowed up to 50 pages). Note: Max Pages
may advertise on your site, but you may not sell
advertising space yourself. Your URL here will
be: maxpages.com/yoursite.
- Angelfire
Communications - This major
service offers free home pages with a
five-megabyte limit on content. However, if you
use graphics from their stock collection, they're
not counted against your space limit. This
service is paid for by sponsored banner ads. You
may advertise your business, but you may not have
paid advertising banners on your page. Angelfire
offers lots of helpful advice for getting you up
and running with your own Web site, even if
you're new to Web site authoring.
- CONKWorld - This speedy
free Web page provider offers a refreshing change
of pace: they display no ads on your site
(although you're allowed to run ads yourself).
You may use your Web space with them for any
legal purpose, as long as it's not a porn site.
With this service, you update your content via
your browser, rather than by FTP. Note: CONKWorld
works only with Netscape 3.x or higher and
Internet Explorer 4.0; it does NOT work with IE
3.X), Your site address here will be:
http://conk.com/world/yourname/
- Crosswinds
Internet Communications - These guys
offer free personal Web pages and free E-mail.
You may upload your page via FTP or with their
upload service that you access through your
browser. No porn, warez or spamming allowed. No
size limits on accounts!
- ForFree - This
service offers free Web pages (up to two megs
limit on content). They also feature free E-mail
with full POP3/SMTP access.
- Fortune City.com - Stake your
claim at this cool service that uses a neat city
theme. Each member of the "community"
gets a whopping 10 megs of space for a Web site.
Better hurry, space here is being snapped up
quickly. At one time, we were hearing complaints
about the time it takes to gain access to update
your page. But Fortune City.com has installed new
server equipment and access woes no longer appear
to be a problem..
- FreeTown - Free Web
pages available ``for personal or commercial use,
providing the content is legal and rated for
general audiences.'' Has a Web page creator form
that lets you build your page online.
- GeoCities - Among the
biggest services of its type, GeoCities offers
free Web pages and E-mail. You start out by
staking your claim in a GeoCities
"neighborhood" that offers pages with
similar themes to yours. You then submit an
application and are given a password for use in
creating your own personal home page. You are
then able to use GeoCities' file manager utility
to create your home page. Or, you may submit your
custom home page and GIFs/JPGs graphics files
using the "EZ File Upload Utility." You
can also upload your Web page and other files
using an FTP client.
- Hypermart - This
service offers you 10 megs of space and
"unlimited bandwidth" for your non-porn
business-related Web site (no personal sites
allowed). Hypermart offers you CGI-bin access and
supports Microsoft Front Page extensions.
- Internet the City
Online - New service that gives you
a personal Web site and an E-mail account (up to
one meg in size both both).
- Phrantic's
Trailerpark - Free home pages that you
can create instantly with a "Free Homepage
Generator," or you may upload your own
custom creation.
- Supernews - These guys
offer a lot of bang for your buck (especially
when you consider that you don't need any bucks
to use this free service!). There's free Web
hosting (and free E-mail) here. For non-profit
organizations, they provide "Free Gold
Level" Web site hosting (up to 100MB/month).
Also offered in French, German and Spanish.
- SureSite - This
commercial Web host provider also offers free
pages that you can set up by filling in a series
of blanks, using their online "Web
Publisher." This service is reasonably
speedy, but you only get 50 kilobytes of space
and you may only use graphics from their clip art
collection (if you use your own images, there's a
$50/year fee.) No porn, no spam and no
"blatantly offensive" material allowed.
- The Express Page - Get your
free Web page here and you can design it online,
even if you know nothing about HTML.
Business-related pages are permitted.
- Towne Square - Towne
Square 2000 is a free on-line publishing system
where you can create all sorts of Web pages --
without programming and without any HTML
applications running. You can create Web pages
just by using your browser. The first thing you
need to do is get a good Web browser. A browser
is an application with which you can view Web
pages (you're using one right now). Towne Square
2000 recommends Netscape
Navigator or Microsoft
Internet Explorer to take advantage of all
of Towne Square's built-in interactivity.
- Tripod free Web
pages - A major free Web page
service, Tripod has unfortunately fallen victim
to the trend of the annoying "pop-up"
advertising button. You get 5 megabytes of space
for your site. You have two options: if you're a
beginner, you can use the "Quickpage"
option if you want Tripod to write your page's
coding. If you know HTML coding, you can do it
yourself through the "Custom" option.
Tripod offers lots of goodies, including an
option to have your own chat room. There's also
lots of help here on how to become a successful
Web page author.
- Web International - Another
free Web page service. Personal home pages only;
no commercial sites. You can build your page via
their easy-to-use online page generator.
- WebSpawner - WebSpawner
is an online Web authoring system that lets you
design and develop customized Web pages in a
matter of minutes - without having to learn HTML.
Once you have approved your web page it will be
placed on the World Wide Web, at no cost to you.
- Xoom - Xoom, the
people noted for their extensive clipart
collections, have started up a free Web page
service. Here, you get five megs of space to
build your personal or small business home page.
You also get free clip art, CGI scripts, and much
more.
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