How to Create a Free Website With Edicy

A new startup offering free web design and hosting is Edicy. Here's how to use this site to create a free site for yourself or your small business.

Difficulty:

Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need

• An Internet connection
• An account with Edicy

1. Sign up for an account at Edicy (see link in Resources below). The free account will include hosting by edicy at a URL like myname.edicypages.com. When you sign up, choose an easy-to-remember name for your URL.

2. For a fee, you can buy a domain and host your site on your own domain. This type of account is called a pro account and costs 4 Euros per month. (Edicy is physically located in Estonia, hence the Euros.)

3. Edicy sends you a password when you open your account. After you sign in for the first time, you can change it to something you want.

4. Start in Site Settings by choosing a name for your site and picking from the templates for a look you can work with. You can upload your own logo and add, edit and delete pages. You work with pages in a drag and drop interface that allows you to add pages and subpages and decide whether or not to include the pages in the menu.

5. You can add images, search features, YouTube videos and a blog to your site. Edicy does not provide any email accounts or services with their sites.

6. Edicy provides templates, but if you know what you're doing, you can customize the template to look however you want.

7. After you've created your pages, publish your site. Each time you edit or change anything, you must republish.

Resources

• Edicy