How to Create Free Personal Websites
Creating a free customizable website without any technical knowledge is fast and easy. With preset themes, drag and drop features, widgets and e-commerce options, you can build a professional looking website absolutely free. Hosting servers that offer free web-building tools with free publication often limit storage and bandwidth. Other options that may be limited are private domain usage, footer customization and page limit. In addition, some sites my put their own advertisements on your web pages. A few places do not put ads on your pages, and some offer upgrades that will remove the ads from your site.
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How to Create Free Personal Websites
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Make a list of your website needs. Do you need a website that allows a payment system, such as Paypal or Google Checkout? Do you need the ability to add videos or images? And how about HTML codes for your Twitter feeds? Knowing exactly what you need will help you choose the right free hosting company to build your new website.
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Pick a name. Most free websites do not allow you to use your own domain name. Subdomains are the most commonly used. For instance, instead of your site's URL being http://yourdomain.com, it would look more like this: http://yourname.freesite.com.
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Find a free hosting company with great website building tools. Now that you know what you need and have decided on a name for your new site, it's time to start putting it all together. There are many free hosting companies out there, and some are better than others. Webnode.com offers free hosting and great web-building tools. You'll get 100 MB of storage and 1 GB of bandwidth. It is 100 percent free, with upgrade options, and has a no-ad policy--the company does not put ads on your pages.
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Domain name upgrade options are almost always available with free hosting sites. However, registering your domain with the free site can be more costly. Godaddy.com offers domain registration and at a reasonable price. Moreover, once you buy your domain at Godaddy, you can use it anywhere on the World Wide Web. Therefore, if you build your free website and then decide to upgrade with the hosting company using your own domain, it's best to register it through Godaddy.com first; then upgrade with your hosting company.
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Monetizing your free site. Some free hosting companies allow you to place your own ads on your free site. This means you can generate an income from your website. There are countless ways to earn money from your site using ads from different publishing companies. Setting up an account with Google Adsense or CJ.com will allow you to place ads on your site.
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