Tips to make a free website...

I would not personally suggest you to make a free website. Simply because free is never reliable.

They can cancel your account whenever they want to.

It has many other disadvantages also. For example the domain name can be extremely long. It's hard for your visitors to remember your website if the domain is too long. Your domain name has to be short and easy to remember.

Second thing is, your visitors won't find you a reliable source. Let's say if you make a free website from Geocities, your domain name would look like www.geocities.com/yourid.

It does not look so professional and just makes you lose more traffic. Geocities do let you create a free website but your visitors may find you unreliable and non-credible.

Hosting can be another problem. You may not have all the features that you would, if it was a paid account. Bandwidth and storage capacity would probably be low as well.

The logic is simple if they are not getting anything, they won't give you anything. After all there is no free lunch.

But the good news is there are some web applications that let you make a free website with no technical skills. They host the site for you and even they provide you with sub domains as well.

And some of them also allow you to buy a domain name from them.

Since they are also in business. They need to make money in order to run it. Some of them make money by selling you domain names and others through shared ad revenues.

Here are the some of the most reliable platforms that let you make a free website. You can take a look at each option to see which one suits your needs the most:

Synthesite

It's pretty simple and easy to use. They provide you with unlimited hosting and also provide a sub domain for free. You can also buy a domain name from them if you want to. It is one of the best platform that allows you to create a free website. Find out more information on Yola.

Weebly

It is listed on Time's 50 best websites. It is considered to be one of the best.

They also provide you with free hosting and sub domains. It is useful for both websites and blogs. Users can upload audio, videos and many other things. It also has more advanced features for premium users. -- Learn How to build a website for free with Weebly

Webnode

It has more features for e-commerce sites. They also provide free hosting and sub domains. You can even purchase your domain name with them if you wish. -- More on Create a Free Website with WebNonde

Wix

Building a flash-based website was never that easy. Its drag & drop interface easily adds audio, video, images, text, animation, decoration, and so much more. -- More on Wix, The Free Flash Maker

These are really good free web building applications. They let you build, test and publish your site for completely free.These site builders are mostly for those people who have no knowledge of HTML.

They allow you add many widgets as well. You have a lot of options. If you don't wish to use WIX but still want make a flash site with other site builders. You can do that as well.