Free Web Hosting

So you want your own website but don’t want to pay for it? No problem! Go to http://pages.google.com/ and set up your personal site. Unlike the similar service from Microsoft, this does not require a credit card (because it is free and will apparently remain free), is quicker and easier to use and allows you to do cool things like upload HTML. That means you can, if you want, create pages (in applications like FrontPage) that are more interactive with the users and link to other pages. Or you can simply create the site using Google’s on-line tools. I have a page with a free account here: www.contemporaryworship.net. This is a Google Pages site that I do not pay for. I do pay GoDaddy.com $7 a year for the use of the name (contemporaryworship.net) but I don’t have to. It’s just that most people probably wouldn’t remember http://bkunkle.googlepages.com/index.htm as easily. You can store up to 100 MB of stuff on these pages. Pictures of your dog, your vacation, recipes—anything you feel compelled to share with the world can go here. And, if 100 MB (which is a lot) is not enough, well there may be ways around that too. I don’t see why you couldn’t get two Google Pages and link them together for twice the space.