Simple Tips on Setting Up Your Free Website Now

March 13, 2010 | By admin In internet | Comments(0)

These days, getting a free website is easy. Whether you want to start a small online business or just want to share your opinions with the rest of the world, you can get a website of your own with just a few clicks of the mouse. Before starting, however, ask yourself, what do you plan do to with the site?

If you would just like to share information with visitors, then a blog is the ideal solution for you. A blog allows you to post articles, pictures, videos as well as links to other web sites, and it requires little technical knowledge. Visitors can also post their comments on the various posts and you can manage these comments, editing and deleting offensive posts.

A blog is the way to go if you would like to build a reputation as an expert on a particular subject in order to launch a career as a freelance consultant. You can set up a blog in just a few minutes by using a hosted blog service. You can use the site’s pre-designed templates to create an attractive blog design and write and upload blog entries using its text editors. An alternative is to use get free articles from content generating sources other than yourself.

If you would like to restrict access to your blog to family and friends, you can create your blog using an online diary service or a tumblelog. These blogs are essentially online journals or scrapbooks where you can post photos, videos, text entries and links to other sites. They can also be used to social network through an online community.

On the other hand, if you’re setting up a website to do business, you will want to go with a free hosting service to set up your site. A free web host allows you to put e-commerce features on the site such as a shopping cart, multiple e-mail accounts and online payment solutions.

Unfortunately, there are a lot of disadvantages to using free web hosting. For example, many hosts will offset hosting costs by placing their own advertising on your free site. Your URL will not be a unique domain name, but will include the name of the hosting service, which might make the site seem unprofessional. And if you exceed the amount of bandwidth you are allocated by the web host and your site receives a lot of traffic, many of your visitors might not be able to enter it.If you’re okay with these restrictions, then a free web host solution is for you. Once your online venture starts to become a success, you can easily upgrade to a paid web host provider.

If you’re interested in using a free web host to set up your site, here are some things to look out for when picking the host to use.

First, how much web space are you allocated by the host? Consider what your needs are and whether you intend to embed a lot of pictures, sound files and video clips. You also need to consider that you’ll want to have room to expand your site for future needs.

Second, once you’ve gained some technical expertise and want to upload web pages that you’ve designed yourself to your site, does the web host allow FTP access?

Three, what is the maximum file size and what are the kinds of files the web host allows you to upload to your free web site?

Fourth, how fast or reliable is the web host? If your site frequently down or has slow access, then you will lose visitors and business since they will look for another site.

Five, is the bandwidth allocated to you by the free web host enough for your need? For a starter e-commerce site, an allocation of 1 to 3 GB should be sufficient.

There’s little difficulty in getting a free website; the challenge lies in creating and maintaining an interesting one that will make people want to visit it over and over again.

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