What sites offer free websites?

I need to start my own up now seeing as we want to start showing etc so need to set one up for our lil doggies!

Any ideas for any good ones? :)

www.piczo.com

its a cool site, and instead of having to know HTML and how to make a site from scratch, its all click and drag.  You upload all your stuff, and then put it where you want it on the page.

The only downside to it is this:  You cant google a piczo site.  The only people who will go to it, are the ones you hand out the site to.  But once word of mouth comes about, then your hits and visitors start coming in steady.  At least from my experience.

Have fun!

www.moonfruit.com seems to be one a lot of people use, not sure if it is free though.

Your service provider probably offers free space.

I set one up for my friend on awardspace.com as they give a reasonable amount of space, and no annoying adverts and pop-ups.

The program I use to make my site is Serif Webplus 9, but you can get Webplus6 (which I started with) free on line and it is a wisiwig program so easy to work with for computer newbies.

Hi,
I use www.freewebs.com
It is easy to follow instructions.
If you new me you'd know I'm hopless at anything with computors, so if I can do it anyone can. :-)
Good Luck

Nope.....go with Microsoft Office Live Basics you do need to give them your c/card details but it is free.    Only thing I've found is you need a different card for each different website you want to register which I don't have!

I'm with freewebs, really easy to do and I quite like it.  I am wanting to set up a new one though in a different way, more about each individual dog etc.

> www.moonfruit.com seems to be one a lot of people use, not sure if it is free though.

Yep, this is who I have used, very easy to use, free, but you can upgrade for about £25-£30 to have the adverts removed, which makes it look so much more professional. I have also bought a domain name and had it redirected so that I don't have the moonfruit part in my website address anymore!

Jo, where do you buy domain names  please ?

I use http://www.streamline.net as my webhost (I have two websites, one for the dogs and one for the cats) and have found them very good. Reliable, cheap (it's around £14 for year and your domain name is included in that, and you get a whopping 250 MB of webspace, unlimited e-mail addresses etc. I moved to them after being dissatisfied with my old one and when I asked around friends, more seemed to use them than any other one. It's worth paying to avoid adverts I feel and as the domain name is included in it, total bargain I think. Also some of the free ones have limited bandwith so sometimes you can't view people's sites if they've exceeded it.

I pm'd you :-)

I paid £5 for my domain name for 2 years with Nominet - can get much cheaper than that!

that's where my came from via an agent...........did you set it to your website yourself Christine?

Yep and I'm no techno wizard so it can't be that hard!

Christine - Can I ask is you current website in your profile built using Microsoft Office Live Basics?

No - my Munster site is built using Orange's free website which is good, basic, but very easy to use.  I don't know if I'm allowed to link to the Microsoft site I have built so I will PM - it's one of my cats & her breed - not dogs!

Thank you just would like to see if that's ok! 

I clicked on the link and it all looks reasonably clear but just wanted to see something done if that makes sense!

Thank you v. much

Like Christine I used Orange's free sitebuilder.  I'm a complete computer bozo, so needed an easy peasy, talk me through it, I'm thick, type of thing.  I was amazed at how easy it was.

> Yep and I'm no techno wizard so it can't be that hard!

you realise your domain directive isn't working? it goes to the wanadoo-mysite address when following your link......

I started off with a wanadoo/orange freebie site but changed to moonfruit.com after 6 months, I find it has better tools and has more website building options

I've used mrsite a few times now it costs 25pounds for a domain name and website per year that is basically templates you pick and chose i did use my own html in some aspects but overall i was impressed..
Considering advertising on champdogs is over 25 pounds i thought it was a good deal (champdogs is good though as it reaches more people) there is a link to the site under my profile of the website if i'm allowed to say delete it if i'm not..

> you realise your domain directive isn't working? it goes to the wanadoo-mysite address when following your link......
>

I'm not really that bothered, the org.uk one takes me to that site but I want the domain name so I have it and then can use it on a better & bigger site that has more pages I can add too as I'm at max capacity with Orange.

I also have the Orange mysite one,and it was really easy to do,you can choose background colour,the pics are a bit of a bugbear though as you cannot click on them to make them larger when viewing,but all in all pretty good
Wendy

Jolene,
Have pm'd you regarding transfer of domains :-)
Hoping you can help?

Dee

> Nope.....go with Microsoft Office Live Basics you do need to give them your c/card details but it is free.

I followed Christine's advice on this and built a nice site in a few hours yesterday. Dead easy and really well presented.

M.

Have pm'd you back Dee!

Thanks for the advice everyone, ive decided on a site and now main gup my webpage.

I will unveil it to all of you soon! x

my websites are all done via a specialist company so its not something I have ever had to deal with..... but the thread interests me because my friend has just bought his domain name to stop anyone else doing so....and now wants me to help him with making a site. I  have looked at the sites recommended here (freeweb?) but it seems that you just get a website address with their freeweb bit at the front of your chosen word....so.....is there an idiot proof way of doing it for someone with absolutely no techy knowledge....but using their own doamain name?

> I followed Christine's advice on this and built a nice site in a few hours yesterday. Dead easy and really well presented.
>
> M.

So can I take a peek, please, pretty please!  :-)

Sorry, not very bright tonight! PM'd you as I don't suppose I'm allowed to post it here, but have updated my profile if anyone else wants a look. The site Christine recommended was very easy to use, and I think it looks good, but would welcome feedback.

M.

Does anyone know any website companies who are good at what they do, professional and not to expensive?

Mx

There is someone I know who breeds/shows cats who has a very good website & she has done a few for other people,  don't know what she charges but I can give you her name & email address if you'd like to contact her?  PM me.

i have come acrossa woman who is currently doing a website for one of my clients, using my images and have to say im very impressed.. do you want her details? She specialises in show dog websites.