guy like me I've spent too much money on websites I'd pull out that credit card for web hosting I'd throw Canadian dollars at tools and buy too many domain names for bad business ideas but I'm tired of spending money my next website has to be free as in 0 I don't want to spend a dime the website is for good harvest my super popular gardening Channel on YouTube I don't need anything special just a simple onepage website is fine it needs a splashy photo a spot for a few videos and I ran out of space but this is a contact Section could I do it could I translate this into a free website like this stick around this is the story of how I did just that to start I did some research and I found seven free website tools that seem to be recommended most often the first one I tried was Wick Wix seem to be recommended everywhere all right took me about a half hour but I've been able to design my site on Wix I think it looks pretty good so now let's publish it but when I hit publish I knew instantly Wix wouldn't work for me G so it looks like free websites on Wix have this ad that scrolls with the website it's kind of a deal breaker and on top of that check out the URL they gave my free website I wasn't able to get rid of this part of the URL which kind of sucks I could deal with this but not this I'm giving Wix one star ugly ad ugly URL so that's just to know from me and remember I'm just rating wix's free plan not Wix as a whole actually like Wix as a website builder if you use the paid plans seeing how bad wix's free plan was got me suspicious because when I had Googled best free website builder tons of people had been suggesting Wix they never even mention mentioned the big ugly ad instead they praised Wix for super arbitrary things so I was feeling skeptical when I tried my next tool wordpress. com not WordPress but wordpress. com they're two different things wordpress.
org is the open source CMS you can download for free and upload to any web host wordpress. com is a separate hosted service so don't get them mixed up and don't come at me in the comments and say you should have tried wordpress. org no it's not free I mean technically it's free but you'd also need a word Press host and I'm telling you there are no good free WordPress hosts anyways wordpress.
com was also a disappointment so I'm just setting up my free site and they say I need a Premium plan to change fonts and colors come on I know it's a free product but that's that's corny I was able to design my website to look how I want it but to be honest it took me a while I found wordpress. com confusing I mean look at how the interface keeps switching and Chang changing as I navigate through it that's just kind of odd and once I published my website I noticed that like Wix wordpress. com also put a big ad on free websites so wordpress.