Before, creating a website was an activity for professionals in the sector, who created presentation sites for companies and shops, making themselves pay for the job. After that, blogs were born and everyone was able to open one, so as to have a personal site where to pour everything we like. Nowadays it still makes sense to have a personal site where you can write what you want freely, to create your own site or blog and establish your indelible presence on the internet without being limited to the social network on duty. We will thus have the opportunity to have something personal and unique on the Web, to tell your thoughts, publish images and photos and advertise your professional or commercial activity. Whatever the reason for wanting your own site, what is important to know is that to create one you do not need to know programming codes or to learn complex software; you can create a beautiful site also graphically, starting from scratch and in a few minutes, through a fully automatic system.
In this post we see some of the easiest methods to create a personal site for free .
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1) Blogger
The easiest and most immediate method to have your own personal site for free is to manage a blog on the Blogger site.
Just be in possession of a Google account (also the one created with your smartphone or to receive emails on Gmail is fine), choose the name, domain and graphic style and immediately start filling your blog with content. With experience, we can later add new graphics, new embellishments and also monetize our site using third-party banners or integrate Google Adsense; the latter is the most suitable because it is well integrated, being all managed by Google it becomes easier to monetize and earn with your blog.
2) WordPress
If you are a little more experienced you can open a site or blog on WordPress.com.
The platform is one of the best for writing on blogs and sites (also in other services, since it can be integrated anywhere) and also allows you to manage a real site, choosing a domain and choosing the graphics, layout and title, so you can start right away.
Another feature of this platform is the presence of numerous plugins, which can be integrated on the chosen site to make it even more functional and to make it even more complete, without having to go crazy with codes and programming. For monetization you can integrate any type of banner, even Google Adsense, so you can also earn something from your works published on WordPress.
NOTE: Wordpress.com is not to be confused with Wordpress.org, the open source CMS to be installed on a webserver to create a site or blog on your domain and on your hosting.
3) Striking.ly
With Striking.ly it is possible to create multiple pages and several preconfigured graphic models are made available, where you just need to edit the text. The site is created immediately with free registration. The web page is all dynamic, with several links that refer to the different sections without ever reloading. The models allow you to create a portfolio of images, a personal page with the curriculum (Resume), a company or a store landing page.
To get the custom domain and other extra features, you can upgrade and pay $ 16 a month.
4) Swite
All now write on Facebook or Twitter or publish videos on Youtube or photos on Instagram.
A nice and original idea to create a new personal site is to take all the public posts posted on these social networks and put them all together in a new blog managed on Swite.
The mechanism will ensure that every new post written on Facebook and every new photo published will also be placed inside this blog. What you are going to create is not a copy but a kind of personal web-magazine that includes all your social activities .
Applications like these are new, but they already work very well, easily and automatically. Swite therefore allows you to automatically organize all posts published on social networks in its own personalized website and it works really well.
5) Sidengo
If you want to create a website with multiple pages, an excellent and simple way is offered by the free Sidengo platform. In this case you can create a real site, where you can present products, events, commercial services, photos, videos or whatever you want. Getting started with Sidengo is super easy, just register for a free account, choose the address and name of the site. You can immediately start designing your web page with an editor divided into sections and tabs. Sidengo is an excellent solution for those who want and need a presentable site also for commercial purposes, but cannot or do not want to commit too much to do it.
6) Wix.com
Wix.com is one of the easiest ways to create HTML5 animated sites for free, without having to learn how to write programming code. You don't even need to have great design skills with Wix because there are several beautiful models to choose from, which can be made your own and modified with your own content. It is also all in Italian so easy to understand and use.
I wrote a review on Wix some time ago describing this online service as the best for creating free animated websites in HTML5 .
7) Weebly
There are many other platforms, simple to make personal sites and, at the same time, powerful for professional and commercial use.
Among the best ones, the excellent Weebly deserves special mention, to which I dedicated a guide article on purpose.
8) Google Sites
To create a personal or even professional site you can also use Google Sites, a way a little more elaborate but still simple and fast.
For full details, see the guide for creating a website with Google Sites .
9) SAUL is a creator of different types of sites, which allows you to design the template using a simple interface and then export the HTML code to your website which can be on Wordpress or any other CMS.
10) Grapedrop is similar to SAUL, with a very intuitive interface for designing web pages and exporting the code.
In this case it is also possible to publish the pages on a subdomain of Grapedrop or even pay a subscription and obtain your personal web address. For creating web pages, lets start from scratch or select the template to start from. At that point, just click on any element to change it, add different blocks on the web page and customize the corresponding settings, add maps, images, tables, videos, sliders, tabs, modules, check boxes, buttons, sections, navigation bar, link blocking and more.
11) Simbla is an excellent website which to create your personal website using the drag-drop method. Just like some of the websites mentioned here, you just have to choose a template or start from a blank web page, add several components to the web page and save your changes in the project. Eventually, the code can be extracted and exported for use in Wordpress or other CMS.
12) Overblog is a platform where you can write personal blogs and publish them online for free and without difficulty. You can customize the blog as you wish, you can publish all kinds of content that are indexed by the same platform and you can also earn money with advertising.
