Now a days, everybody in this world wants his own Website , but can’t afford to hire a developer.
For these type of people there are many CMS (Content Management System) .
In CMS, a person with a basic knowledge of Computer can build Website.
There are many Free CMS like PHP Nuke,Mambo,Xoop, etc.
Like Microsoft Office Live- Small Business Website Creator,Google Site, Doodlekit, Yola.com,and Webs.com,
Microsoft Office Live- Small Business:
- It is a free Website Builder for making Small Website ,
- It’ll cost you 14.95$ ,if you intended to purchase a Domain via that, or you can set-up your Pre-owned Domain for Free
- It comes with 500 MB Free Online Storage,
- Good choice for Small Business Proffesionals and Schools Teacher
- It also gives you 100 EMail account.
Note: you’ll need Internet Explorer ,to run there CMS
Google Sites :
it’s a Free Google Product, with cool and user friendly Web site Builder.
- With 100mb free Storage /Website
- Unlimited Pages
- you can point your Domain Name by CNAME Settings
- With Cool 41 templates and 4 Page Layout ,although templates are highly Graphical but optimized for Slow Computers and Broadband Connection.
- More Important Feature! you can monetize it with Google Adsense.
- A web address of the form “http://sites.google.com/site/sitename/”. The sitename portion must be at least 6 characters and can only contain alphanumeric characters (no undersc
ores, etc.). - Can add youtube Videos,Picasa Photos,Google Maps
you can access it here: http://sites.google.com,
Note: it’s transist version of Google Page Creator.
Yahoo Small Business: Yahoo Small Business is Similar to Microsoft Small Business with a Page Editor look like Tiny MCE, and it’s not Free
- Can get Domain at 9.95$/Year
- You have to Seperately purchase Web Hosting
- Templates are Good but not so Dynamic
DoodleKit: It’s a Dynamic Website Builder with Free as Well as Premium Plans
Free Plan Includes:
- 25000 hits means Visitors/Month
- W3c Validated Templates,Cool but Simple Web Layouts and Themes
- 5 Pages,with photo uploading limited to 500
- Highly editable CSS.
Although other plans have better features ,but they’re Costly as much as 14$/month to 49$/month.
Yola.com: it’s one of my Favorites due to it’s highly User friendly CMS,it allows you to Add Adsense, Cool Gadgets,
- 1 Gb per Website in Free Plan
- 1 account may have 5 Website
- About 100 cool Templates
- Banner Free,websites
- Good Customer Support
- Unlimited Bandwidth
Webs.com: it’s known for it’s Cool Website Builder ,which provide Quality and Features Side-by-Side. I like it because they provide free In Built Social Network, Gaming Arcade(powered by Heyzap) ,Cool Widgets, option to create Wiki,Forums,Links Page,photo gallery,Video Gallery, an choose from 300+ cool Templates
- it gives it user 40 Mb in free plan
- Allow us to add HTML
- Adsense Compatible
- they earn by showing Adsense ads on Free Plans