how to make a free personal website?

[wireburner]

I was wonder how would I make a free personal we site , i noticed some of You have them , would xanga.com be any good???

[fun4now]

if ya figure it out, make one for me too.

[weld_13]

depends on what ya wanna do? i would prefer myspace myself but i cant use mine anymore.

[JimYoung]

I have done several on different servers... I think the best one that I have is on WWW.PSEND.COM you can get 20 megs for free, and for $10.00 a years keep all the advertising and popups off the page. go to Yahoo.com for their domain registration, and then have Yahoo redirect to your psend site... here is mine www.jimy0.com or http://jimyo.psend.com both will take you to the same webpage the www.Jimy0.com is yahoo redirecting to the same psend page. www.jimyo.com is redirecting to a set of pages within the http://jimyo.psend.com address that I pay 10.00 a year to keep the adds off. Bottom line .. 2 redirect addresses that are easy to remember which go to one psend server. Hope that helps, if not send me an email and I can talk you through the process. there are others. Perhaps you might google "free web pages" and go from there.
Jim

[weld_13]

heres a setup this is out of the question for u but. my dads an iseries tek for ibm and got a as400 (big storage server computer) for free from somebody and we have whats called static ip`s on our internet and bunch of other stuff so he can work on his as400 when out of town and he can set up sites and email acounts for free . its pretty cool hes setup email acounts and has a family website for mom to post family pics and stuff on she might make a blog i dont know.

[JimYoung]

heres a setup this is out of the question for u but. my dads an iseries tek for ibm and got a as400 (big storage server computer) for free from somebody and we have whats called static ip`s on our internet and bunch of other stuff so he can work on his as400 when out of town and he can set up sites and email acounts for free . its pretty cool hes setup email acounts and has a family website for mom to post family pics and stuff on she might make a blog i dont know.

If its static (fixed IP address) then you can still go to yahoo or any other registration service and register the name you want and have them redirect to your Dad's IP address. I suspect that he is aware of firewall requirements for servers that connect into the web... when you open that server to the web and start sending it traffic , "The bad guys will come" ... and, the http://www.xanga.com/ is taken so you will have to search the registry service for another one..
Jim

[weld_13]

yeh i know all the firewalls we have are confusin . but he does have it setup right .

[jasonsp6]

Jim, he was not trying to purchase the name "xanga.com", but rather using them as his webhosting/internet blog service.

Another up and coming webhosting service to look into is google pages. YEs, our favorite web search company is offering webhosting: pages.google.com

[gourdhedd]

I use freeservers.com . They have templates in which you can just fill in the blanks, or you can upload your site pages created by web authoring software.

Here is my template site: www.bradyassoc.8m.com . It costs $24/yr to keep off the popup ads.

Here is the homemade site: www.powdercoatoven.4t.com . Clearly, my web design skills are somewhat lacking, but it was fun to do. This one's free, but has the popup ads, which are not much of an issue with the more modern browsers.

Can't beat the price.

Gary