In this post I will explain you how to create a free website. Creating a free website is not big task who knows web languages such as HTML, PHP, ASP etc. But you will definitely love to create and host a free website on your own domain. Yes that’s true you just need to have your own domain else you can host your own website on hosting provider’s sub-domain.
If you have your own domain that’s fine otherwise you can buy a domain from one of the domain name provider companies such as Bigrock.com or Godaddy.com.
Blogger.com – We all know that we can create free blogs at blogger.com a leading and one of the best blog site. Most of the blogger user may not aware how to create and host free website on blogger.com
Here is the step by step process of creating a free website on your own domain name at Blogger
1. Go to your Blogger Dashboard>>Settings>>Basic
2. In the publishing section click “Add a Custom Domain” for blog address.
3. Enter value www.yordomain.com (.in .org .net ) or any other extension.
4. Now click save.
5. Now Go to your domain control panel.
6. Add or edit existing cname (www) and put value ghs.google.com. remember to put trailing dot (.) after value ghs.google.com or your domain name will provider will show it by default.
7. Click save and wait at for 24hrs to refelect.
8. Now your existing blog or website is hosted free of cost on your own domain name.
Weebly.com – Weebly is the second most used website for creating free website. It features a “drag-and-drop” website builder. Weebly hosts more than 15 million sites. You can host your website on a domain. Read detailed domain name mapping instrctions here. Instructions
Yola.com – Yola is a website builder and website hosting company. But it has limitation of 3 pages, 1GB space and 1GB bandwidth. Find detailed domain name mapping tutorials here. Instructions
Ucoz.com – It is a good free website creating platform where you can create a website without web design and development knowledge. Although there are few limitations such as hosting space is limited to 400MB. You can find detail video tutorial for hosting and mapping your own domain name to ucoz website here. Instructions
Webs.com – Webs.com is another very good free website creating website. It provides 40 MB free space of hosting a website. You can find domain name mapping tutorial here. Instructions