![]() The good news is that there are tons and tons of awesome developers, like the commenters you see on our posts, that are more than willing to work with you to develop a site that you’ll love within a reasonable budget. Unfortunately, if you’re looking for a beautiful and professional website with your own custom domain name, it’s going to cost you. If you just want something fun and personal, or maybe you’re just getting started on the web, the free options above might be just what you’re looking for. This makes it difficult for you to jump in as a freeloader, not impossible mind you, just difficult. People have to put valuable time into designing and developing them and hosts have to purchase expensive servers to hold them. In the end, there’s a reason websites cost money. Free website providers on the other hand, really just want your money and set up free site builders with limited features as a way to entice you to subscribe to their premium offerings. I think the main reason for this is that even though blogging services like Tumblr have premium content available, they’re really aimed at providing a truly awesome free service. The lesson we’ve learned here is that, despite a wealth of stellar and flexible free blog services, the free website market isn’t really that impressive. Honestly, if all you need is a portfolio, I’d skip all of these and go with Krop, Coroflot or CarbonMade, but that’s a different article! Closing Thoughts: When Free Isn’t Good Enough I’m not the biggest fan of Flash but if you really don’t care, then some of the Wix sites really do look as close to professional as you’re going to get in the free world. If you can’t live with these, try Yola as it seems to have fairly minimal ad space. Unfortunately, it also has the most ridiculous ads so it’s definitely not perfect. The experience and UI was an overall great experience and as I said before it has the least conspicuous URL. Out of all of the services I tried, I liked them best. There’s a reason these solutions made it big: they’re really good! Blogger For today’s purposes we’ll stick to a few of the big guys. The problem is, there are a million blogging solutions, most of which are genuinely free. I would wager that many people searching for a way to snag a free website would be quite surprised with how much they can accomplish with a free blog. These little pieces of web real estate have advanced immensely and are becoming more and more like full-blown websites every day. Let’s start off with the easy targets: blogs. Fear not however, as it will all wrap nicely by the end.įurther, how often are you approached by potential clients who want you to give them free work in exchange for “exposure” or something equally as vague and non-existant? Wouldn’t it be nice to have some services to recommend to those people that actually fit in their budget (which is of course zero)?įinally, for the non-designers out there genuinely looking for a free website, this article will help you learn what’s out there and what options are the best from this designer’s perspective. Since the core audience of this site is people who make a living designing websites, there might be a few readers that are genuinely offended at this attempt to put them out of a job. Responsive Design Smart Analytics Social Tools Total Design Freedom Branding & Logo Tools Stunning TemplatesĬreate Your Website Free Why Are We Talking About This?
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