There are a lot of little startups out on the internet that offer free website services. Most of them, to be honest, are just down right terrible. They offer no support outside of a small, useless FAQ, or if they have any kind of support you find yourself wishing you had just gone and spent the money to get a paid hosting plan and hiring a developer before you even get a response back from the company. I do a lot of web development work personally, however not everyone needs to pay for a developer to make a site that just fits basic needs. A developer, like myself, does have various site templates at my disposal that just require tweaks in colors, Look and Feel, and content to speed up production and ease however there still is a price tag to be paid.
I do a lot of affiliate marketing and ended up stumbling upon a free website service to resell. www.omnegold.com/jameys
The site links to both the website service and the affiliate service but that carries a $199.00 price tag and I won't bother ranting too much about that until I start getting paid back on my work. If you take a look at the free website section it goes into detail about the various plans they offer. I was really shocked to see that they offer technical support with the free plans. You get a phone number to call, leave a message and someone calls you back, or you can submit trouble tickets and get responses in < 24 hours (I played dumb and sent a few just to be sure).
I decided to give it a sample run and signed up for the free website service and a free subdomain so I could get out without paying anything. After I was all signed up I had to wait about five minutes to actually be able to log into my account. I was immediately presented with breaking down the categories so it would narrow down my choices of which templates I would look at. I selected a template and began customizing my site. Once I was finished with the customizations I published my site, and everything looked pretty good. I didn't care for only being restricted to 4 pages, but I guess that's where they make their money. They also have a lot of features locked out of their control panel, such as e-commerce shopping carts, picture galleries and other nice configurations that you have to purchase any plan other than the free plan to gain access to.
Anyhow, that's my short, sweet little review of this little nugget I found. Let me know what you think, or comment with your own review.
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