I have a web site I'm MAKING for a small business. I've never posted a web page before but I'd like to. From what I saw at school when we posted our work we just typed in some kind of FTP address into the address bar and posted it on out COLLEGES web site by dragging it into a folder so our teacher could check it. My question is their a site I can check out to do that for free and is it that simple. like can I just upload my design to a folder put all my documents in it and it will work.  I dont know how it works can anyone give me a good site and some idea what I'm doing.Some free hosting options are available for personal websites but they generally are not appropriate for business websites.  A business should be paying for specialized web hosting SERVICE.  One I've used is http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/.  Their Starter plan, which is adequate for many small business websites, is only $4/mo.

If you WANT to use a free service for testing purposes, you could use Yahoo's GeoCities. I believe Google has a similar free service. If you use Yahoo's GeoCities, the URL would look like this: http://www.geocities.com/mysite/; likewise, Google's service would have google in the URL.

To get a truly unique URL, such as www.mysite.com, you need to register a domain name and use a specialized web hosting service.  For domain name registration, I suggest godaddy.com. Quote from: soybean on April 10, 2009, 10:56:24 AM

Some free hosting options are available for personal websites but they generally are not appropriate for business websites.  A business should be paying for specialized web hosting service.  One I've used is http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/.  Their Starter plan, which is adequate for many small business websites, is only $4/mo.

If you want to use a free service for testing purposes, you could use Yahoo's GeoCities. I believe Google has a similar free service. If you use Yahoo's GeoCities, the URL would look like this: http://www.geocities.com/mysite/; likewise, Google's service would have google in the URL.

To get a truly unique URL, such as www.mysite.com, you need to register a domain name and use a specialized web hosting service.  For domain name registration, I suggest godaddy.com.

I believe Google has a similar free service.

As implied, I haven't used Google's service. I have used Yahoo's GeoCities, and I think it works fine. Uploading files is very easy. No FTP required.