FREE Web page services
The Globe - This major free Web space provider offers six megs of space, along with free E-mail and chat. You may create your Web pages here by writing the HTML coding yourself or you may use this service's "PageWizard" to write the coding for you. This service also offers fun, free multimedia Active X objects called "Things" that you can easily place on your page. "Things" come in several varieties, including games, Web site navigation and holiday themes.
The only quibble we have with The Globe is that they place banners at the top of your pages.
The Icestorm Network - This is a reasonably fast, new Web host service that, for "a limited time," is offering free space with the ability to run up to five CGI scripts (a feature that's rare with free space providers). What's more, there are no annoying pop-up ads here. You get two megs of space, online Web editing & uploading, E-mail forwarding and free tech support. However, you don't get FTP or Telnet access. No porn or spamming allowed.
Spree.com - A free Web space provider that offers "unlimited" space. Note: click on the "Your Free Website" link to get your free page. Spree offers other goodies, such as a guestbook, a counter and a directory manager. Currently, they're offering a sweepstakes, in which new members who sign up have a shot at winning a year of free Net access. Spree is also offering a popular partners program, in which you can earn commissions for sending traffic their way.
Crosshairs.com - This new Web hosting company is offering free Web space and E-mail. You get four megs of space. The only requirement is that you must display their banner at the top of your page. You upload your pages here via an FTP client. They offer a speedy connection through Above.Net. Your Web site address at this service will be http://www.crosshairs.com/users/yoursite.
MaxCafe - A new free Web space provider that offers 10 megs of space. There's also a nice selection of page creation and editing tools, including help for WebTV users. Other helpful tools here include "MyLog Log File Analyzer," which allows you to view the stat log file entries for your site, and "Meta Tag Wizard," which generates meta tag "description" and "keywords" for your site.
Free Yellow - This popular free Web page provider offers two megs of space for business or personal use. They feature interactive forms that you may place on your site with a simple cut & paste. There's other goodies, like CGI stuff, nice graphics, counters, sounds and more. No adults sites allowed.
- Angelfire Communications - This is a competent free Web space provider that offers a five-megabyte limit on content. However, if you use graphics from their stock collection, they're not counted against your space limit. This service is paid for by sponsored (annoying) pop-up banner ads. You may advertise your business, but you may not have paid advertising banners on your page. Angelfire offers lots of helpful advice for getting you up and running with your own Web site, even if you're new to Web site authoring.
- CONK!World - This speedy free Web page provider offers a refreshing change of pace: they display no ads on your site (although you're allowed to run ads yourself). You get one megabyte of space and may use your Web site for any legal purpose, as long as it's not a porn site. With this service, you update your content via your browser, rather than by FTP. Note: CONK!World works only with Netscape 3.x or higher and Internet Explorer 4.0; it does NOT work with IE 3.X). Note: CONK!World sites have their own CONK! domain name (for example, if your account name is "user", then your site address here will be http://user.conk.com).
- Crosswinds Internet Communications - This site offers free personal Web pages and free E-mail. You may upload your page via FTP or with their upload service that you access through your browser. No porn, "warez" (pirated material) or spamming allowed. No size limits on accounts! Some of our visitors report that their service is can be slow.
- CyNet City Virtual Community - This "interactive community" offers free personal Web page hosting and E-mail. You get four megs of space, but can get 10 megs if you "run for office" and become a "City Official" (which can be any one of a number of positions, such as City Attorney, Librarian or Museum Curator, that involve taking on some responsibilities, such as overseeing online forums).
- Fortune City.com - Stake your claim at this cool service that uses a city theme. Some people will probably find this concept appealing; others are annoyed by it, judging from our feedback. Each member of the "community" gets a whopping 10 megs of space for a Web site. Better hurry, space here is being snapped up quickly. At one time, we were hearing complaints about the time it takes to gain access to update your page. But Fortune City.com has installed new server equipment and access woes no longer appear to be a problem. Note: like many services of this type, you must display their banner on your page. No commercial pages allowed.
- FreeNation - Popular Hong Kong-based service that includes a generous 5 megabytes of free Web space, cgi services, SSI (server side includes), counters, guestbooks, random mime generators and many other features. They're temporarily not adding new members, but you can sign up and be notified when they're available again.
- FreeTown - Free Web pages available ``for personal or commercial use, providing the content is legal and rated for general audiences.'' Has a Web page creator form that lets you build your page online.
- GeoCities - Among the biggest services of its type, GeoCities offers free Web pages and E-mail. You start out by staking your claim in a GeoCities "neighborhood" that offers pages with similar themes to yours. You then submit an application and are given a password for use in creating your own personal home page, for which you get six megs of space. You are then able to use GeoCities' file manager utility to create your home page. Or, you may submit your custom home page and GIFs/JPGs graphics files using the "EZ File Upload Utility." You can also upload your Web page and other files using an FTP client such as this. GeoCities has had some problems lately. Some of our visitors report access woes. The service also has annoying "referral" ad pages that you have to click through to get to your site.
- HowdyNeighbor.com - Free home pages. Two megabyte limit. You may not advertise the sale of any products and/or services on your site.
- Hypermart - This service offers you 10 megs of space and "unlimited bandwidth" for your non-porn business-related Web site (no personal sites allowed). Hypermart offers you CGI-bin access and supports Microsoft Front Page extensions. Note: some of our visitors have told us that Hypermart has had some glitches lately and users have experienced problems trying to upload their pages.
- Internet the City Online - New service that gives you a personal Web site and an E-mail account (up to one meg in size both both).Note: some of our visitors report that this service is inaccessible sometimes.
- Lombardia - This site offers free instant Web pages. There is no need to know HTML; just fill out a form and
you're all set. It's easy to do, even if you know nothing about making a Web page. The only drawback is that you're limited in your options (for example, you're only allowed up to 3 links). Your site's URL here will be http://home.lombardia.com/users/nameofyourchoice.html.
- Ostriches On Line - Free home pages to worthy people and organizations. No commercial sites. They prefer small, (under 150K) heavily-used sites.
- QSL.Net (for Amateur Radio Operators only) - If you are a licensed Amateur Radio Operator you can get free space for a Web page at this service. They'll also provide you with free E-mail and full FTP capabilities.
- Supernews - These guys offer a lot of bang for your buck (especially when you consider that you don't need any bucks to use this free service!). There's free Web hosting (and free E-mail) here. For non-profit organizations, they provide "Free Gold Level" Web site hosting (up to 100MB/month). Also offered in French, German and Spanish.
- SureSite - This commercial Web host provider also offers free pages that you can set up by filling in a series of blanks, using their online "Web Publisher." This service is reasonably speedy, but you only get 50 kilobytes of space and you may only use graphics from their clip art collection (if you use your own images, there's a $50/year fee.) No porn, no spam and no "blatantly offensive" material allowed.
- The Express Page - Get your free Web page here and you can design it online, even if you know nothing about HTML. Your site with them will have to display their advertising. Business-related pages are permitted.
- Towne Square - Towne Square 2000 is a free on-line publishing system where you can create all sorts of Web pages -- without programming and without any HTML applications running. You can create Web pages just by using your browser. You get three pages as a "guest" here.
The first thing you need to do is get a good Web browser. A browser is an application with which you can view Web pages (you're using one right now). Towne Square 2000 recommends Netscape Navigator or Microsoft Internet Explorer to take advantage of all of Towne Square's built-in interactivity.
- Tripod free Web pages - A major free Web page service, Tripod has unfortunately fallen victim to the trend of the annoying "pop-up" advertising button. You get 5 megabytes of space for your site. You have two options: if you're a beginner, you can use the "Quickpage" option if you want Tripod to write your page's coding. If you know HTML coding, you can do it yourself through the "Custom" option. Tripod offers lots of goodies, including an option to have your own chat room. There's also lots of help here on how to become a successful Web page author.
- Web International - Another free Web page service. Personal home pages only; no commercial sites. You can build your page via their easy-to-use online page generator.
- WebSpawner - WebSpawner is an online Web authoring system that lets you design and
develop customized Web pages in a matter of minutes - without having
to learn HTML. Once you have approved your web page it will be placed
on the World Wide Web, at no cost to you.
Xoom - Xoom, the people noted for their extensive clipart collections,
have started up a free Web page service. Xoom recently increased the amount of free Web space they offer from 5 to 11 megs. You may use your free Web space to build your personal or small business home page.
You also get free clip art, chat rooms and E-mail. Note: you will need an E-mail account to sign up. You can get a free E-mail account here.

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