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.