About Making a Free Personal Website
Free personal website hosts range from the very basic and simple to complicated sites that require knowledge of HTML and CSS. You can avoid spending a lot of time switching from one to another if you have an understanding of what exactly you want to use your site for. Photos and video will require disk space. Ecommerce needs shopping carts and automated payment options. If you only need a blog or a calendar you can share, almost any free personal website will work for you.
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Webs.com
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Webs.com, formerly Freewebs, offers more than 300 templates for free personal websites. Forced ads and banners are placed on your website. Upgrading to a premium account will remove the ads and give you more options. The page editor is easy to use, and photos and video can be added to the site. Webs offers ecommerce with payment through PayPal or Google checkout. Free users get 40MB of web space and 500 MB of monthly bandwidth. Free accounts do not qualify for email.
Synthasite
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Synthasite is uncommon in that it offers free websites without forced ads or banners. Its site builder is very easy to use. Content is added by dragging and dropping. Synthasite offers unlimited hosting and bandwidth, but there is a 5MB limit on individual uploads. Google AdSense is easy to add to your site. You can add photos and video to your website by linking to YouTube, Metacafe, Flickr and Smugmug. Users can add ecommerce to their website with an easy-to-use store function, but you must have a premium or business PayPal account.
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Geocities
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Geocities is part of Yahoo and offers free web hosting designed for beginners. Its site builder is easy to use and offers standard features like FTP and add-ons. Geocities offers 12MB of disk space and 3GB monthly bandwidth. Free accounts have forced ads, and some find their ad box to be intrusive. Geocities offers premium accounts that offer your own domain name and unlimited disk space. Email is only available with premium plans.
Angelfire
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Angelfire is owned by Lycos and claims to be the number one free website host for teenagers. With a free account you get 20MB of disk space and 1GB of monthly bandwidth. Angelfire is FrontPage compatible, so you can upload your own web design. It also provides site building tools, FTP, a CGI library and support JavaScript. Angelfire will place ads on your webpage unless you upgrade to their premium services. If you want to use your site for ecommerce, Angelfire provides a PayPal button option.
Free-space.net
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Free-space.net allows you to upload a website you created or use their editor to create a website online. It offers both free and enhanced services. The free service includes 200MB of disk space, 2GB of monthly bandwidth, a web control panel and FTP. You can use your own domain name for a fee, or use a Free-space subdomain. Free-space does not put forced ads on your website, and your site comes with 5 email accounts.
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