Publishing Your Site For Free You've made yourself a site to be proud of, but how and where to strut your stuff? Finding free hosting is relatively simple, though the host will more than likely want you to advertise for him in exchange for his services. Besides a hosting service, you'll need file transfer software to get your files to the server. Then, once on the Web, you'll want to submit your site to the search engines to let the world know you're here.

Free Web Hosts

• Neotown - A great new host building communities on the Web. Unlike Geocities, they don't put pop up advertisements, or any advertisements, on your site! They include FrontPage extensions, if you need those, too.
• Digiweb - 10MB free space, free chat and bulletin board, CGI scripts and no ad banners!
• Fortune City - A large online community with many neighborhoods for special interest groups. 20MB of space, a few CGI scripts such as form mail, a counter and a guestbook, and chat boards are some of their features. Banners are placed at the top of your pages.
• Geocities - A very popular free Web host. Friendly, helpful, community oriented with lots online support for publishing your pages. Annoying popup advertising banners are the downside.
• Tripod - Another community of free Web page owners. Has online answering machines, personal chat rooms and more.
• Free Web Space Net - This site provides a very comprehensive listing of the free Web hosts on the net. The features and reviews that are provided for each host are very thorough and helpful. Definitely a site you'll want to visit.

File Transfer Software

• WS FTP LE - Windows 95, Windows NT, and windows 3.X - Free.
• Leech FTP - Windows 95 - Free.
• Cute FTP - Windows 95 - $35, but with many excellent features.
• NetFinder - Macintosh - Shareware - $15 to register.
• Fetch - Macintosh - Shareware - $25 to register, but free to people associated with educational institutions.

Promote Your Web Site

• Submit It! Resources - Information on how to drive more traffic to your sit.

Free Personal Web Address

• Come.to - Go here to get a free, lifetime Web address that goes with you from site to site. Your address will be something like "come.to/yourname," "listen.to/yourname" "surf.to/yourname,."