Here is an excerpt from a useful post from MakeUseOf.com – Top 4 Websites to Create Free Websites Instantly
“There are times when you need a simple, well-designed web page, but you don’t want to put the effort into creating the necessary code and formatting…
They are especially useful for Internet marketing, but also for the following uses:
- Simple one-page promotional sites for a product or service
- A simple Internet page for your online resume
- A one page article on a current controversial topic, allowing visitors to respond with their own opinions
- A one page tribute to a lost loved one
- A perfect solution for someone with zero web design skillsIf you do choose to use the following free services, keep in mind that there’s one major downside. The ease with which they provide sites also leads to an entire plethora of absolutely ugly, horrendous, MySpace-like web pages that should never, ever be published on the Internet. Now, with that said, if you know what you’re doing – you can create some pretty cool websites with the following tools…
BlinkWeb is one of those rare sites that offers something for free without any gimmicks or loopholes. The website that you end up with doesn’t have any major drawback other than the fact that your site is a subdomain of BlinkWeb…
Squidoo is one of the most popular web page creation services that’s taking ‘instant websites’ to a whole new level. Squidoo is sort of the ‘Associated Content’ of website design, in that each site you build is a lot like an article, and it’s also a part of the larger Squidoo social network. Squidoo calls each page a ‘lens,’ and each lens essentially consists of various elements that you’ve chosen to put together into a single page…
Like Squidoo, WetPaint is a very cool community that seeks to provide wiki-like websites where the entire community can edit your page, but no one needs to know any programming language. Once you create your page, if you configure it so that the public can edit it, the page is immediately live even while you’re editing. There are some cool features like the ability to upload photos or add video – but the real power behind this free service is that you can essentially create a collaborative community page where everyone can provide input…
In my own humble opinion, Weebly is the best service to create free websites instantly. Why? Well, Weebly isn’t just free, it’s ad free and it offers more tools and features than the other sites. The interface on Weebly also offers drag-and-drop, but there are more items to choose from such as the basic toos like text and images, multimedia content like a photo gallery or embedded YouTube player, a variety of revenue generating widgets and useful miscellaneous features such as forms, a feed reader and even a simple forum…”
