Personal Web Pages - 3 Instant Web Hosting Solutions

Looking to get a real web page up real fast?

Here are three instant solutions to creating a personal web page without having to learn a single line of web coding:

MySpace - This is the big daddy of personal web page solutions and the undisputed king of social networking. An email address and a name are all that is required to have your very own online presence on one of the most talked about sites on the net since Google. Once you’re signed up, you’ll be rubbing shoulders with 167 million –and counting– other MySpace users and you’ll have access to a personal home page which you can easily customize with a free MySpace layout. You’ll also have your own blog, photos page, inbox, calendar, address book and various other MySpace bells and whistles. A MySpace page can also double as a promotional tool if and when you get your own website.

Squidoo - This site is like a personal home page builder buffet that allows you to cook up your own web page by adding all sorts of instant ‘modules’. This includes modules that are automatically integrated with other internet entrepreneur solutions such as Amazon, CafePress, Ebay and the like. This means that you can actually make money online with this personal web page (I kid you not) and it won’t cost you a plug nickel. Other Squidoo modules allow you to easily customize your page with videos, photos, music, guestbooks, Google maps, links to your favorite websites (like your own, heh heh… nudge, nudge, wink, wink) and more. Squidoo page building can be a little slow and awkward at first as you attempt to plow your way through the plethora of options. But once you get the hang of it and realize the possibilities, it has the potential to become a real addiction.

Geocities ~ My journey into the world of web design began six years ago with Geocities, one of the oldest and most well known in the arena of personal web pages. This is the quintessential free-web-hosting-for-dummies service that is still around and will baby-step you through the entire process of building not just a single web page but an entire website. A Geocities account will provide you with a wide assortment of easy web page builder tools including page wizards, email forms, web counters, Yahoo Maps, a search box, a blog and more. You also get free web statistics to keep track of the throngs of visitors (you hope) beating a virtual path to your site.

All of the above solutions are totally free –albeit ad-supported– and hence the only investment is your time and maybe a little strain on the noggin trying to think up something to make your page about. So if you ever gave some thought to having a personal web page, I urge you to dive right in and give one of the above a try. You never know what might become of it and you could even wind up making a buck or two.

Robert Darrell is the webmaster of ironspider.ca which provides tutorials on all aspects of web design including What is Web Hosting? and Best Free Web Hosting .