So, you've built yourself a site and now you need a place to store it. Not a problem. Free space for homepages is readily available. All of the host sites listed here have some sort of page builder that you can use to build your first page, but you won't be satisfied with the results. The Terms of Service for each host varies, but I don't know of any that allow porn, hate mongering, or promoting illegal activities. If that's your thing, you're out of luck here. This is by no means a complete list. But if all you want is a decent place to store your site, you should find what you need here. Until July, I felt that Xoom was one of the best free web providers on the web. They give you 11 megs of space, which is more than most people need. Also, they don't put advertisements on your page, and they don't have pop up advertising. A pretty good deal. Since the beginning of July, the whole place has been squirrelly, I can only hope that these problems will eventually be worked out. Until then, I can't recommend setting up your first site here. Maybe Xoom will get their act together eventually! Xoom will allow you to put up a business site, but they do not allow you to have paid advertisements on your site. They now insert a small bar at the top of each of your pages.  Still, not a bad deal, when it's working. Tripod is also quite generous with the free space. You get 11 megs of space there, too. Tripod will allow you to have paid advertisements on your site and will now allow you to put up a business site. Tripod does the pop up advertisement thing, which can be annoying. Not as annoying as having ugly banners pasted all over your pages, but annoying all the same. It's been my experience that Tripod is slower than some but they are at least reliable. It has also been pointed out that Tripod is a little easier to deal with if you are new at this. One of the most generous of the free host sites (20 megs) is Fortune City. No business sites, no paid advertising, and they stick their banner thing at the top of each and every one of your pages, which makes a framed site, or pop up pages out of the question. I have also found them to be slow, and when I had a site there, the ability to upload was iffy. But, hey, you get 20 megs free! It may be worth it to you. The most popular of the free hosts has to be Geocities. The now standard 11 megs of space are available, along with a lot of beginners tools and such. Here, also, no business sites, no paid advertisements. Geocities either requires that you put their 'geoguide' advertisement at the top of your page, or have the pop up advertisement. They also have this Watermark thing that takes the place of having their logo on your page. Geocities does the 'community' thing to the Nth degree, which I hate but others apparently like. To each his own. Strangely, I've never had a site at Geocities. I really don't like the fact that they assign numbers instead of names. I've had favorite sites book marked at Geocities that disappeared (which is annoying enough) and were replaced by entirely dissimilar sites. Due to this, I'm reluctant to link to a Geocities site. But that's me. OK, so now you've found a home for your new pages. The next question is, how to get 'em from your 'puter to their's. hmmm Most of the above listed sites have a built in utility that is capable of doing this (called something along the lines of a 'file manager' usually) which lets you upload one miserable file at a time. but there is a better way. Composer and FrontPage Express both have a 'publishing' utility which lets you upload your files if your server supports it. Even so, they do not allow you to delete old files from your server. The best thing is to just get an FTP utility. All of the above sites support FTP, tho many are putting limits on it's use. This is an effort to undermine 'warez' sites that ruin it for the rest of us. I use WS FTP 32, which can be found at ZD net's Software Library. It is a no frills kind of utility that gets the job done simply and easily, and it's free. My kind of program. But that's me. Not everybody wants the no frills approach. Not to worry, there are other FTP programs available. AceFTP - AceFTP is a great program that allow users to transfer files from their system to an Internet Server. AceFTP includes advanced options, such as connecting to several servers at the same time and an integrated browser that allows you to view all your files. kinda cool.