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Slide 1: ==== ==== FREE custom websites! http://tinyurl.com/freecustomwebsites ==== ==== Having a website these days is practically a necessity. If you have a business and you don't have a website you are missing out on the potential to greatly grow your business as well as to keep your current customers happy and up to date with what you've got going on. If you are like many people, though, the thought of building a website by yourself makes you cringe and you may not have the budget to hire an expensive web designer. One option to quickly get a website up is to use an online website builder. Using an online website builder, you don't need to know any HTML and you don't need to pay thousands of dollars for a web designer to custom build your site for you. Not only that, but you can update your site yourself easily so you don't have to call someone to do it for you when you need a change made. There are quite a few free online website builders available today; however many of them are not all they are cracked up to be. As I am sure you are aware, nothing in life is truly free, and if you choose to use a free online website builder you may wind up regretting it in the future. Here are 3 things you need to keep in mind before deciding to use a free online website builder to create your own website. 1. Make Sure You Won't Lose Your Files Many free online website builders sound like a great option until you read the fine print. Often times, a free online website builder will require you to use their web hosting in order to use their builder. Then, if you decide at any time in the future that you want to move your site and change how you do things they don't allow you to take your files with you. Often times the files are coded so they will only work with their hosting, which locks you in and makes it impossible to leave without losing all the work you have put into your site. Be sure to read everything in the fine print before signing up with a free online website builder so that you don't wind up losing your files. 2. Make Sure You Don't Have to Display Ads A lot of free online website builders make their money by displaying their ads on your website. Even if it doesn't matter to you from an aesthetic standpoint, there are other reasons that this should worry you. First off, the ads that are placed on your site are sometimes intrusive and include annoying things like pop-ups or pop-unders. These types of ads tend to drive people away from your website and can irritate your visitors. The last thing you want to do is to drive your customers away! Second, even if the ads are not intrusive, you still risk having your customers click away from your site on one of the ads, which doesn't benefit you in any way. Research your free online website builder before signing up to make sure that you will not be required to run their advertising on your website.
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