If you are new to internet and want to setup a website for your small offline business, personal profile, portfolio, music, art, real estate, etc.. you can do that in not more than 5 minutes.

Yes, that right. Just 5 minutes. You don’t need to be a coding guru or know anything about HTML at all, a service called WIX will help you setup a professional looking site based on your needs and interest.

That’s not even the best part; the best part is that it’s absolutely free and it does not even have annoying advertisements! The only additional links you will see are the ones that invite others to create similar sites using WIX.com.

There are tons of templates to choose from and since I have been reviewing the service (last week) I have seen at least 15-20 being added to the existing selection.

Just browse through the collection, select the one you like and quickly edit the text and design and save the changes to publish. The whole process is so easy that it can be done under 5 minutes.

The free versions of this template can either be hosted on WIX.com itself or embedded on your own website just like you embed Youtube videos.

If you don’t want to see those links suggesting your site visitors to create their own at WIX.com or want to upgrade to get more options, you can buy a package that suits your needs.

For starters I think “Combo” is a better option which costs $8.25 for a year and eCommerce package costs $16.17/month which is not a bad deal.

visit WIX.com to get your won website NOW!

Getting started with Google Sites was not difficult at all. With a click of a button you can or you would have already created different type of pages and embedded documents, calendars, photos, videos and much more on your website.

Another pretty simple and user friendly feature is this App is the Built-in editing tools which allows you to make text and formatting changes. It also gives you several other options such as inviting people to edit or view your content with the option of changing access levels whenever required.

However what’s new this time around is that Google Sites now is in 38 Languages. With the count of languages increasing it would definitely be a lot easier for people around the world to build, host and share their own websites on Google Sites.

The Google sites will use the Browser settings to detect and display the preferred language among those supported. However you still have the option of overriding the browser language and setting your own language preference directly in Google Sites.

To override this setting you need to click on the “User Settings” on the My Sites page and change accordingly.

Mentioned below are the 38 languages that Google Sites now are supporting with this release: Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, English (UK), Filipino, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese.

Other than the addition of the new languages, Google sites has also made some improvements to the existing services such as the movement of the toolbar to the top of the page so that there is clear demarcation between the site content and application functionality and the site settings have been shifted to this navigation bar.

Another feature added is to let the user or the owner informed on what changes you have made to the User Settings page.

I am sure there are many more to come but with these new added features it definitely makes life a lot easier.

I have divided the process of setting up a website for free in 3 stages which are as follows:

1. Register a Domain Name for Free or Almost Nothing!
2. Free Webhosting for your domain
3. Keep your free website up and running in style (Design and Maintain)

Without wasting much time and writing just for the heck of it lets proceed to the first of the three steps. Register a Domain Name for Free or Almost Nothing!

Once you have the content ready for your website, where will it be hosted for the users to access it? Luckily we are living in a world where webspace is cheaper than the space on your hard-disk. You can buy up to 100GB space online for only $90 a year which comes down to $ 7.5 a month, which is really cheap. (Godaddy)

Getting back to the topic of "Setting up a website for free" here are a few reliable and reasonable options for hosting.
Godaddy offers about 100MB free space to host your files but you will have to live with the advertisements which automatically appear on the site, but this 100 MB space comes with the domain name bought from Godaddy.

Another good option is Awardspace.com (Does not work in Asia); it provides you with everything you need to host your website. The catch with Awardspace.com is that it works only in selective countries.

Following is the list of sites which offer free web space for users around the world:
http://110mb.com/
http://doteasy.com/(Without Banners)
http://122mb.com/
http://50megs.com/ (With Banners)
http://0catch.com/ (100 Megs)

So what do you do once you have a registered domain name with let’s say Godaddy.com and free hosting with Doteasy.com? Login in to Godaddy.com and modify and add Doteasy.com Name server information to the domain on Godaddy.com and you are all set!