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May 07, 2011 04:40PM
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I've created free websites on both Google sites, sites.google.com, and Weebly, http://www.weebly.com/. I found both to be fairly easy to use. For Google Sites you need to create a Google account (which I recommend anyways because I love Google, haha) and Weebly you just create an account and connect to an email address. I found Google sites to be a bit less cumbersome in getting it to do what I wanted, but in the end I think I prefer how my Weebly site looks. Also, if you know any HTML you can do more with either. You can also use Word Press, http://wordpress.com/, or Blogger, blogger.google.com (which is also Google based)- These are technically blogging sites, but really it just depends on how you set it up.
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I am also looking at freei.me, 000webhost, yola, Award Space, and Writers own words.
It's interesting when you try to look up comparisons on the different free website places. It's hard to get an idea of which ones are better than the others! :(
Try to checkout what your web address would be before you create one - at least if you're using it for marketing purposes. Weebly's is pretty good because it's "yoursite.weebly.com" where, for as much as I love Google, their web address is a bit more cumbersome and is "sites.google.com/site/yoursite". If you're using it in a marketing capacity you want people to be able to remember and get to it easily. Also both of these sites give you the option to keep you in or out of search engine searches - Google does one better though and you have the option to only let people who know the web address have access to your site or have only people who you invite have access (again though if you're using it for marketing not really the point).
i've used geocities, now yola. i have a wordpress blog.
