| Provider |
Descriptions |
| Angelfire
Communications |
This
major service offers free home pages with 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 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. |
| CyNet
City Virtual Community |
This
"interactive community" offers free personal Web page hosting and E-mail.
You get two 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). |
| Crosswinds
Internet Communications |
These
guys offer 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 or spamming allowed. No size limits on accounts! |
| CONKWorld |
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 may use your Web space with them 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: CONKWorld works only with Netscape 3.x
or higher and Internet Explorer 4.0; it does NOT work with IE 3.X). |
| Earth
Online |
This
free Web page provider offer 6 megs of Web space, as well as free E-mail,
public forums and chat. You must display their Java banner to participate.
No adult sites, pirated material or racist materials allowed. Read their
rules here. |
| 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. |
| ForFree |
This
service offers free Web pages (up to two megs limit on content). They also
feature free E-mail with full POP3/SMTP access. |
| 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. |
| Fortune
City.com |
Stake
your claim at this cool service that uses a neat city theme. 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. |
| 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.
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. GeoCities has had some problems
lately. Some of our visitors report access woes. The service has also introduced
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. |
| 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). |
| 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. |
| Ostriches
On Line |
Free
home pages to worthy people and organizations. No commercial sites. They
prefer small, (under 150K) heavily-used sites. |
| Phrantic's
Trailerpark |
Free
home pages that you can create instantly with a "Free Homepage Generator,"
or you may upload your own custom creation. |
| 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. 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. The first
thing you need to do is get a good Web browser. |
| 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. Here, you get five megs of space to build your
personal or small business home page. You also get free clip art, CGI scripts,
and much more |
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