Many free webpage servers exist on the web using various different methods to allow you to build, maintain and set up a small free website of your own. Unfortunately, they all seem to require you to have an advertisement on each of sites pages for their service. Others add a javascript to each of your pages that forces display a separate window to open displaying their advertisements. It is difficult or impossible to circumvent this intrusion, in most cases!

This is a small price to pay for a free website, but many of them are very slow, or have serious restrictions on the use and content of the site. In addition to this, your site will be stuck with a rather long URL that likely has a directory name that was not your first choice.

These are excellent places to get your feet wet in web design, and offer libraries of graphic material and free page counters for their members pages.

Here is a brief list of them:

• Xoom (now wwwx.nbci) ad in pages.
• Free Yellow ad in pages.
• Geocities very slow/popups.
• Angelfire (now Lycos cookies/popups.
• Tripod (now Lycos) very slow/popups.

Try out these free pages before you set up your website to get the hang of it, and learn some of the basics and pitfalls of web design! You can always use the server space on these free pages as spare storage for large images, although they frown on that practice. It can save you some real money!