Free Dedicated Online Website Builders

These cost nothing to use as long as you stick with the initial feature set. However extra features may cost some money - either as a one off fee or monthly.

Pros:
If you are new to website building or online business these offer many advantages:

1. Being free is a great advantage especially if you are just starting your business and want to test if there is an online market for your products or services.
2. They are usually easy to use without technical knowledge - Colours, text, backgrounds, position of features - can be changed easily
4. It is easy to add and maintain new sections, pages or articles.
5. Some have a lot of useful built in functions such a video, forums, chat which are quite easy to set up.

Cons:
For business purposes they may have these limitations.

1. They may have one fixed structure so to a degree most websites look very similar rather than unique.
2. Extra features cost extra money which may actually end up costing more than paid website builders – usually just those features a business needs such as e.g. - Your own dedicated domain name - Ability to carry sponsored adverts or e-commerce facilities - Removing the website builders link from the bottom of your site so no one knows your website was built for free.
3. More advanced features may require some technical ability and time to set up e.g. video.
4. You are limited to the template designs provided.

Choose this option if:
· Your website does not need to be absolutely unique in appearance.
· You want a site with lots of features.
· You would like to fully design and test your site without paying and
· You are ready to pay a fee for extra features once you go “live”.

Click the links below to get a free website builder at

• Yola
• Ning