Geocities
(http://www.geocities.com)
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Geocities provides 15 megabytes of free web space with a text editor, page templates, and page builders. Advertising is supposedly matched to the site (the site creator can select a category for the ads, but most advertising features film and recording artists), and is not detracting. It's possible to upgrade to an ad-free site for $5.00/month!
For $11.95/month, Geocities hosts your domain.
The Geocities site contains a collection of clip-art that you may use in your pages, and also templates for an easy-to-create guestbook and various counters! Geocities also provides statistics about how often pages are viewed free-of-charge.
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Angelfire's Home Pages
(http://angelfire.lycos.com/doc/zones/build.html)
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Lycos' Angelfire provides 20 megabytes of free web space with building tools and images, plus free games for the site hosted. There is also a collection of functions written by Lycos, which web builders can use to change page colors and do other tricks. The free space comes with pop-up ads, but it's possible to upgrade to an ad-free site with 25 megabytes of space for $5.00/month! Domain hosting is offered for $34.95/year, with log-ins to your domain forwarded to your actual site.
Angelfire contains a number of different templates for easy-to-create guestbooks, forms, and a counter!
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Teacher Web
(http://www.teacherweb.com)
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Teacher Web provides teachers free web space with on-line forms for creating your own site, including a calendar page, plus different types of pages for posting links and assignments. Teacher Web also provides additional pages that you can build using a text editor that boldfaces, italicizes, and does other formatting. The text editor can be used in Explorer 6.0 or higher browsers. Once created, these pages can be viewed in any browser
There are a variety of page formats to chose from, and a whole collection of graphics for decorating the pages! It's also possible to upload HTML files created elsewhere to this site!
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Yahoo Groups
(http://www.groups.yahoo.com) |
Yahoo Groups provides a place to create a members-only community for your young users--one where they can chat safely with each other in a protected setting and participate in threaded news groups or share stories! The users must all register at Yahoo to use the site, and, if they're too young to do so, you might want to get an account which they all share!
Other communities: members of a writers' community can upload stories and poems. Community members can also upload resumes that they create! A community with resumes could include a job bulletin board with job postings, too.
Each community space for uploading great pictures, a message board for posting threaded messages on various topics, and a private chat room.
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MSN Groups
(http://www.msn.com) |
MSN Groups provides a place to create a members-only community for your young users--one where they can chat safely with each other in a protected setting and participate in threaded news groups or share stories! The users must all register at MSN to use the site, and, if they're too young to do so, you might want to get an account which they all share!
It's also possible to create communities with public access for other Microsoft email customers. Members of a writers' community can upload stories and poems. Community members can also upload resumes that they create! A community with resumes could include a job bulletin board with job postings, too.
Each community comes with a calendar that can be customized, places to upload pictures and documents (such as stories, reports, and resumes--created in any editor, including MS WORD and various web editors!), a place to post links to other sites, a message board for posting threaded messages on various topics, and a private chat room.
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Host Depot (from MSN?)
(http://www.hostdepot.com/)
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Basic hosting (ad-free) starts at Host Depot for just over $7.46/month, with great on-line customer support plus an easy-to-use template for creating a couple of web pages. Hosting with a library of scripts (that is, different functions that do tricks on your pages) to jazz up your site costs slightly more.
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Hostway
(http://www.hostway.com/)
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Hostway's ad-free Value hosting plan starts at $8.95/month, and includes 5 megabytes of storage; a guestbook; a cgi-bin for guestbooks, forms, and special scripts; free domain hosting and free help with domain registration (of course, you do have to pay to register your domain annually); customer help pages; and customer support. If you have a lot of images, though, including custom-created logos and such, 5 megabytes may not be enough. The next plan is the Gold plan, with lots of space for $13.95/month!
All hosting plans are listed in Hostway's index!
My thanks to G. Hintz of the MCC for sharing this great site host!
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Netsol/VeriSign
(http://www.netsol.com/en_US/name-it/) | This site sells web space, but some options are only $50.00/year. One thing that you can do for free here is check to see if the domain name you want is available! Check all categories--net, com, and org, as many people looking for your site may not know which your site is! |
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