Free Website Setup Just Using Email
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Do you want a website for your small business, voluntary group, church, or local organization? But... are you worried about costs? Are you put off by the complexity of setting one up?
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Do you want a website for your small business, voluntary group, church, or local organization? But... are you worried about costs? Are you put off by the complexity of setting one up? are you worried that the service will want personal details for 'registration'? are you concerned that once set up, it will be complicated or costly to maintain it?
Your Options
The answer could be to use one of the many services on the web that provide free websites. Your three basic options are these:
- Basic Site: Use a service that offers free websites that do the basic job, but have limited options.
- Complex Site: Use a service that offers free websites with a large range of options for layouts, fonts, uploading of pictures, etc.
- Free Web Space: Use the web space that often comes free when you sign up for a broadband service.
The third option, Free Web Space, is truly free, but generally demands some knowledge of computers to be able to use it successfully. Also, if you change your broadband supplier, you can lose your website.
The second option, Complex Site, gives you the most flexibility, but you could find it daunting when asked questions like 'what theme do you want?' and mentions of technical terms like 'FTP', 'CSS' and 'FrontPage'.
The first option, Basic Site, is a good way to get started if you haven't any great computer knowledge and just want to get a free site up quickly and easily.
So how to do it?
Based on the first option, Basic Site, we'll show you here the three steps you need to take to get a simple website up and running, using a free email-based service.
- Decide on your site name, eg. Jones-Flowers, or Ohio-Cycling-Group
- Create a document in Word or similar that can be the basis for your website. Be sure to include your business or organization name, a few details about it (eg. For a shop you'd include what you sell and your opening hours), some contact details (eg. Email and phone number) and ideally include a picture.
- Email the document to the service, including your preferred site name.
That is basically it. The service will normally get your site set up within 2 or 3 days, and email you back with its web address. From then on you can use this address in your flyers, posters or adverts, and you have finally joined the 'web revolution'!
Some final advice
In choosing a service, ideally you want a recommendation from a friend or colleague, but if you don't have this, you can of course find these services by typing 'free website' into Google. If you do find a service this way, you do need to take care that you don't get pushed into spending money. Many of these services do provide a free website, but try to push you into buying extras or a 'premium' service.
Pretty soon, if you aren't careful, it can be anything but free!So my advice is that if this is your first website, keep it free. You can always add the bells and whistles later, and if necessary create a whole new website later on with 'domain name', feedback forms, menus, shopping carts, videos, and all the other extras you can think of!
Copyright Michael S Mitchell
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