There are several. Google has free website service, and at the moment doesn't have embedded or pop-up adds. Yahoo's Geocities is easy to use, uses embedded ads, but has limited bandwidth and 15 MB storage space for their free program. The free program does not allow you to upload materials by FTP, you have to use their File Manager & Upload programs. To get FTP access you have to use a paid plan. Lycos's Tripod & Angelfire have easy templates to use (I don't use them, I code directly in html, been doing it so long), but have both embedded and pop-up adds, which can be frustrating. they do allow you to upload things by FTP. You used to have your choice of one or the other, but apparently they weren't making enough money. the advantage of Tripod and Angelfire is they give you plenty of bandwidth. I believe the free programs on both of them give you 20 MB storage. You'll find the code doesn't take up much storage space, it's the images that do that.
My personal website is hosted on a free Tripod plan, it's been there so long, that if I moved it, I'm afraid people might not find it again. I don't like the embedded ads plus pop-ups. My kids like Google's service, but they are both experienced html programmers, and I haven't used the service so I don't know what they offer. What you might want to take a look at is getting a full-functioned Mozilla browser (I'm not sure if their newer version Sea Monkey does or does not have this feature) which has a very night WYSIWYG web page editor/creator in it. that's what a lot of the faculty here use to create their websites. I've gotten to the point where I actually write all my tests in html, so I can easily convert them to keys and post them on the web afterwards, and I've been doing that for about 6 years now. I also now also help maintain the Gulf Coast Council of the Federation of Fly Fishers website at http://www.gulfcoastfff.org . I get to go in and fix the crappy code that the file management system uses...it's specific to the resolution of the monitor settings that the site is being created with. The other guy responsible has a 1280 screen width, and after he gets done, half the time the text overlaps on computers with 800 or 1128 screen widths. Good html code uses a percentage so stuff gets displayed right no watter the screen width. A program I definitely would not recommend (called CMS Made Simple, CMS means Content Management System). There are also other free html editors out there, as well. (I use one that's so ancient it was written for Windows 3.11, and is basically not too much more than a glorified word processor). Mark Delaney Jerry Goldsmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: vfb Thinking it is time to build a website. Do any of you have suggestion for free websites which can be utilized for the technically challenged ?? JG --------------------------------- No need to miss a message. Get email on-the-go with Yahoo! Mail for Mobile. Get started.
