I need a FREE website for a new business service. Any advice?

Question

I just spent 4 hours searching for a FREE wed site provider. Geocities drove me nuts, (although it seemed like the best) 50megs is confusing, Angelfire lost me, webNG.com is so confusing I just deleted it. Myspace seemed to be on a general basis: dating/relationship/chat/journal/whatever level....so where do I go?



I am completely lost when it comes to comprehending how to start a website! I need a website for "dummies" I guess!

Does anyone know of a site that offers free web sites, easy to use, I don't understand HTML copy paste or whatever!

Not a "blog" (unless you think that will work) but a website, where I can do whatever I want. Offer my business services (notary public, mailed legal forms, advice, ) With background templetes, sound, guestbook, counter and more?

Anyone have a great website that was easily created? Share your site and knowledge for 10 points!

Answer 1

http://www.freewebspace.net is the internet's largest listing of free web hosts. They do have a business host list too.



If you wanna brush up on HTML http://www.htmlgoodies.com is a very user friendly learning site.

Answer 2

Websites are not free.

You must purchase the domain name first.

That' about 8 dollars a year.

If you go to globat.com (or godaddy.com) (cheapest pretty reliable) you can get virtually unlimited hosting for 5 bucks a month. Hosting is the computer your website will live on.

Next if you go to templatemonster.com you can pick from thousands of templates. Those templates range from 20 to 100 bucks. Then you will need to hire someone to upload the template and swap the general information out with your specific stuff. If you actually intend to sell merchandise online then you are opening up a whole new can of worms that i will not get into since you didn't mention it. If your site is strictly informative do not pay more than 200 dollars to anyone to for setting up your template. It should not take more than 4-6 hours for an experienced webmaster as long as you have your information together and you are not attempting to add some complex functionality. Counters, contact me forms and guestbooks are not complex - they are very easy.



Alternatively, many hosting providers offer site building wizards you can click your way through to set up an even more basic site than the one mentioned above.

Both providers i mentioned above also bluehost.

I think godaddy.com may be the best overall for several reasons.



I have not seen a decent ecommerce site built for less than 5,000. But the purpose you are describing could be done for less than a hundred bucks if an experienced person were working on it. It's probably going to cost you two to five hundred if you're serious.

Answer 3

Microsoft (free domain and hosting for life) , Google (Googlepages, Blogger) , Yahoo (Geocities), Freewebs are some of the companies offering free websites with design tools . A list of free websites with features and links is available at http://tinyurl.com/lw7kp

Answer 4

Have you tried setting a website up with Yahoo

Or may be you can set one up with your own ISP.

has your telecommunications Company have anything on offer that is cheap.

Im with bigpond which is an Australian telecommunication company and I pay AU$10 per month - maybe yr telecommincations company has something like that to offer.

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my website is www.alapz.bigpondhosting.com

Answer 5

you know what, i guess you're new at this :

www.apomontage.com

one website that'll do it all, just upload the template and everything else to your account, and we'll install it for you, and for the prices, email us at : [e-mail]

we provide alot of space with bandwidth, and offcourse if you have a domain name you can link it up and we plug it in to your account.