17 browser-based free online website creators

Browser based editors that allow you to create a web site for free and without needing much (or any really) design or HTML knowledge.

Wix - A Flash widget and page creator.
Weebly - Create multipage websites using a drag and drop Ajax interface. Users can then save those websites to a Weebly server or download them for use elsewhere.
Synthasite - An Ajax based drag and drop webpage editor.
Google Pages - Ajax based simple WYSIWYG web editor.
Sprout - A browser-based tool for creating interactive widgets and web sites in Flash
Jimdo - Another easy to use AJAX site editor. Has a feature for copying other sites’ designs.
Sampa, Babyjellybeans and MyFamily.com - All family oriented, create a personal website, family website or baby website.
Letseat.at - Create a free web site for your restaurant.
SnapPages - Drag and drop text boxes, widgets, photos, calendars and more with an easy to use web page builder.
Pagii - Aims to craft highly stylized personal web pages with drag and drop resizeable widgets. Has social network qualities.
Edicy - An elegant and simple solution to creating web sites.
Sauropol - Create blogs, text pages, image galleries, news lists, document folders, bulletin boards and more.
DoodleKit - Some of these features are available for free, but many will require that you pay
SiteKreator - The free version is a little limited with only 5 design choices.

Starting a web site for free

I am often asked “How can I start my own web site without any web design knowledge and without any money whatsoever?”
I know it can be hard to get started sometimes and not everyone wants to put money down just to get a simple site to share photos, news etc. So I have set out to find as many resources as I could that help you get started.

Option 1) Free blogs

Probably the most well known of the lot is Google’s Blogger.com. Starting your own site (blog) there is very easy. No mucking around with designs (unless you want to that is) it’s just a matter of a few clicks of your mouse button and away you go.

Thoughts.com Forums - Click on “blogs” in the navbar to open a free blog account.
Vox.com - Free blog provider, photo sharing.
Xanga - Another blog and photo sharing site.
i.ph - This blog provider boasts of very refined privacy settings with many options.

Option 2) Social/business network sites
LiveJournal - Blog provider / social network.
MySpace - I’m guessing Myspace needs no introduction.
BraveJournal - Another blog place that is leaning towards being more social network then just blog provider.
Squidoo - Here you can make a one page site about any topic and you can even get paid for your content. You can make many one page content pages not just one.

Option 3) Free web hosting with site builders or content management systems
FreeWebs - Advertising will be placed on your site but if you just want a simple page this is a good place to start.
Yahoo/Geocities - Lots of ads will be placed on your site so only use for personal sites.
Google page creator - You need to have a Gmail account and be using either Internet Explorer 6.0 or Firefox 1.0, or higher, with JavaScript and cookies enabled. If you don’t have a Gmail account, you can sign up for one here free.

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