Free web sites
Many beginners choose to start their projects using free website services because they feel that registering a domain name and signing up to a hosting service is too expensive.
Free hosting and website builders are ideal if you need a temporary website (e.g. for school), advertise an event or publish articles (science, history, internet topics, games, etc).
Don't expect to create a successful business website without spending any money. You can't expect people to take a commercial site seriously if it is hosted for free showing pup-up windows and doesn't have a professional appearance.
Another problem is that the search engines have gotten selective about who they add, because of the number of small and "unimportant" sites that tend to have only links to external sites and offer very little information about a focused topic or concept.
There are hundreds of free services like Geocities and Google Sites.
