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Coolay! Free Homepages
How about getting 100MB free web space and your own subdomain that looks something like http://yourname.coolay.net? Homepage space isn't enough? How about getting free plugins such as a forum or message board, and other upcoming plugins such as counter, visitors tracker, guestbook, and templates? T he advertisments, you ask? Well, of course as you all know, you shouldn't trust free homepage sites that claim to not want to put advertising on your page because they usually don't last for more than a year. Either they disappear -- along with your sites -- or they suddenly begin to insert those advertisements that they claim are ugly and inappropriate. Talk about eating your words. With Coolay Homepages, however, there is advertising, but you can still manage your advertising by choosing whether you want them appearing on every page, or on a frame atop your page, or on a pop-up window that you can close anytime!

GeoCities
Probably the best free home page service there is throughout Internetdom. Coolay's author started their web authoring life using GeoCities as their servers and Coolay's mirror site is still located there. Despite all the "hassles" of GeoCities that people constantly complain about, it's still has the most reliable service around. Besides the free homepage service, it also offers an extremely sophisticated pagebuilder and other page tools for your site's enhancement. Sure, you say it puts a lot of garbage (advertising) on your site, but at least those advertisements are small and customizable, unlike those frames and yucky large banners that Xoom and Tripod impose on your site. Even GC's pop-ups are considerable small and manageable! Besides that, most of us who use GeoCities have never heard of a page suddenly disappearing into nothing, unlike Tripod, a service that seems to have a track record for losing your homepage. Now for the gripe: GeoCities can offer very minimal space compared to most homepage providers like Coolay and Freeservers. Gripe number two: Ever since Yahoo bought GeoCities, the customer service has gone down the drain, unlike before when Community Leaders are available to attend to every newbies needs. Gripe number three: There seems to be more and more garbage piling up on GeoCities Homepages, and this only started happening when Yahoo bought it.