How to Create a Free Web Email Address
Setting up a free email address that can be accessed from the Web is a convenient way to always have access to your email. Even when you're visiting family or traveling around the world without your own computer, you can simply borrow a friend's or visit an Internet café to check your email online.
Creating free Web-based email addresses is as easy as picking where you'd like to have your email address at. Yahoo and Hotmail are two of the most popular and well-known free email providers, and it only takes a moment to set up an email account with one or both of them.
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Instructions
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Yahoo Email
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Go to http://mail.yahoo.com in your web browser, and click the "Signup for Yahoo" button at the top of the screen.
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Fill in the information form that asks for your name, address, username and password information.
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Fill in the security questions and answers to help keep your email account safe.
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Click the "Create My Account" button at the bottom of the screen.
Hotmail Email
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Go to http://www.hotmail.com in your Web browser, and click the "Sign Up" button at the bottom of the page.
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Fill in the username information, and click the "Check availability" button to see if the email address you want is available.
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Fill in the password and contact information on the rest of the form, and then click the "I accept" button at the bottom of the screen.
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Tips & Warnings
Your username or ID at both email services is usually the first part of your email address.
Be sure to choose a password that is difficult to guess so that your email account stays secure. The best passwords have a combination of letters and numbers, with some of the letters in uppercase and some in lowercase.
