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Webs.com (formerly Freewebs.com) provides website hosting services such as plain HTML files, videos, flash, whatever you like. It is a free web host that allows users to create and edit their own websites with just a few clicks of the mouse. In fact, there's no need to worry about the order of which the files to be uploaded. One could just create their own html pages either in programs such as Adobe Dreamweaver, and then upload all the files to Webs.com.

Webs.com is not the only free web host out there, but for me, it is probably the simplest and the most simple. To use basic functions such as simple hosting and uploading individual files. Just like their name says, Webs.com is free for use. For those who want truly their own website, such as to have their own domain, upload many files that would take awful long to complete, if it was done individually, one could simply pay a small subscription fee and become a premium member of Webs.com. Like many other websites out there, being a premium member entitles one to many functions, such as multiple file uploader, unique website templates, individual domains (www.yourdomainname.com) and many other functions that make this process way easier.

Webs.com provides two types of free domain names, one being the old version of www.freewebs.com/yourusername or the newer version of yourusername.webs.com. Not a significant difference but for those who don't want their website to look cheap, they could go for the change.

Recently Webs.com has just revamped the entire design of their website, making it look more appealing to the eyes and perhaps easier to use. However the new look seems to make the site take longer to load, and it removes the automatic updating of uploaded stuff and would require one to refresh after each upload in order to view the uploaded materials. Unlike the old version, which doesn't require all the fuss to view.

Webs.com also allows users to group their uploads, such as html files, flash files, media files, image files and all the other file types. The main editing page shows the uploads in different tabs, which makes tracking of files much easier and clearer to look at. This is perhaps the best improvement I've seen for the past update.

They also provide lots of widgets to be applied to your website. All these widgets are ready-made and only require little work in order to complete customising them and putting them up on the web. There is also no forced ads, that means no irritating pop-up advertisements unless the web owner decides to do so.

Webs.com is pretty user-friendly and for those who are at their first try in creating their own websites, Webs.com also provides some useful user guides and web templates. You just need to fill it out with information and the website's up and running. It is pretty idiot-prove. I can't seem to find anything that would actually require complex knowledge of html or anything of that nature to create a simple website.

All in all, Webs.com is a pretty good web hosting website. I know that many of you out there may have other preferences when it comes to web hosting services but I can assure you that Webs.com is simple, easy-to-use and best of all, it is free!

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