Free Web Hosting

[Rothgar]

I'd like to put together a little web site using a FREE web hosting service. And I was wondering about other people's experiences with such things. What Hosts would anyone recommend?

I've tried using Geocities since I already have a few Yahoo IDs, but am not having much luck using their Page Builder software. Every time I add a picture to a page and Save, my browser freezes on me. That makes building a page VERY slow, tedious, and frustrating.

I'm on a 3 1/2 year old Mac with OS 9 and can only get Geocities Page Builder to load using I.E. However, I.E., being a Microsoft product, is not very Mac-friendly. I have Adobe Pagemill and can build pages using that, but Geocities requires you to use their Page Builder for their FREE hosting. They'll only let you FTP files if you pay for one of their premium sites.

So my question is...what other FREE web hosting services are there? Which ones are the best? Do they ALL hate Mac users? Do any of them allow FTP uploads? I'd love to hear some success stories.

Many thanks.

 

[Tap-Out]

I currently have 2 websites hosted on free webservers. www.freeservers.com is where I do all of my hosting.

Also you may want to think about constructing the website on your own hard-drive then uploading the files to geocities or whatever other host you choose. With geocities you don't have to use their page builder to create websites with their free service, you can construct them then upload them. That's how I always did it before I moved from geocities.

Oh and the reason I moved from Geocities, in case you're wondering, is because I find they put a lot of page errors on your website, and I didn't like that. Everytime I looked at the error code it was always their ad code not my page code that was bringing up errors.

Best of luck, and feel free to contact me if you have any more questions.

 

[Different Guy]

As a builder I would recommend offline software and then upload your stuff.

I use Dreamweaver, it's great but it costs a lot. Or... you could simply download a trial from their website and crack it to keep... Not that I do it or endorse it

Macromedia

That should be the website, you'll find it on there somewhere!