# Best free website providers for lazy people like me **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 9, 2001, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-free-website-providers-for-lazy-people-like-me/71818 "2001-07-09T12:47:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Vinnie\_Virginslayer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/53a042/32.png) [@Vinnie\_Virginslayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vinnie_Virginslayer)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2001, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-free-website-providers-for-lazy-people-like-me/71818/1 "2001-07-09T12:47:45Z")
I’ve used both AOL and Yahoo!Geocities for personal webpages . . .but am always on the market for something better. The key for me is ease of use (I use things like the Easy Page Builder, just to give you an idea how pathetic- I don’t have time or patience for tags) and options (unfortunately, Yahoo! only offers 6-7 templates). I really liked my AOL site. I could put a picture up, and update it within minutes, and it never froze up on me while editing. . . . but I dropped AOL last year, so can’t use it. Anything better out there? Keep in mind I really don’t have the free time to do a full blown site, that’s why I use these kind of services. Remember, easy to use, and the site looks good, and I don’t have to subscribe to a specific URL are the keys. ---
**Author:** ![curwin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@curwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curwin)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2001, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-free-website-providers-for-lazy-people-like-me/71818/2 "2001-07-09T13:05:02Z")
If you want to put up pictures and stuff, I find the easiest to be [http://communities.msn.com](http://communities.msn.com) It automatically thumbnails all the uploaded pictures for you (regardless of their size), and has nice sections for links, recommendations, calendar, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2001, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-free-website-providers-for-lazy-people-like-me/71818/3 "2001-07-09T14:06:28Z")
[Angelfire](http://www.angelfire.com) has a host of building web page hints and graphics, templates, a Basic Web Editor, and 50 MB of space for free. ---
**Author:** ![lolagranola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ea5d25/32.png) [@lolagranola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lolagranola)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2001, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-free-website-providers-for-lazy-people-like-me/71818/4 "2001-07-09T15:57:16Z")
I use the aforementioned MSN Communities to put my personal pictures up for my friends. For my website, I use [Tripod](http://www.tripod.lycos.com/). It has an easy page builder, although I haven’t used it, and 50 MB of free space. I find it hard to escape ads when you want free web space, but at least Tripod offers me a choice of a banner ad or a pop-up (I HATE pop-ups!). From their site… > [@](#): > > Choose from dozens of professional designs > Fast, effortless editing > Easily add all your photos > No need to know HTML – but you can use it if you’d like > Instantly add counters, guestbooks, maps, weather reports, and more ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2001, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-free-website-providers-for-lazy-people-like-me/71818/5 "2001-07-09T22:48:02Z")
If you have Netscape, you can use composer. That’s what I do, and then upload the page to my Crosswinds Account. The Only HTML I have to write is for the mouse over captions. ---
**Author:** ![kiz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7feea3/32.png) [@kiz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kiz)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2001, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-free-website-providers-for-lazy-people-like-me/71818/6 "2001-07-10T04:23:15Z")
Another place to look is [http://www.homestead.com](http://www.homestead.com) – you have your choice of either using the personal or professional web page templates, and I think they have a pretty good selection. Be forewarned, though: Homestead is switching to a paid service beginning in September, and you’ll no longer be able to download any sigs or photos you have there onto another site… ---
**Author:** ![Vinnie\_Virginslayer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/53a042/32.png) [@Vinnie\_Virginslayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vinnie_Virginslayer)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2001, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-free-website-providers-for-lazy-people-like-me/71818/7 "2001-07-10T21:45:56Z")
Just to let everyone interested know I played around with Yahoo!Geocities Page Builder, and it’s actually not too bad. The only part I hate is I can’t seem to copy and paste Word to the text template, but I’m sure theres a way around this.