I just don't like this site. They asked me for an e-mail address and I gave them one. I've asked them several times to stop sending their rubbish to me but every day I get 'Homestead News' or 'Make your site pretty.'
It all began about six months ago. I am a member of a club, who wanted ... Read review
Advantages: Shows you how angry you can get with a PC Disadvantages: Internet calls are expensive - I'm not wasting £ writing these out
I just don't like this site. They asked me for an e-mail address and I gave them one. I've asked them several times to stop sending their rubbish to me but every day I get 'Homestead News' or 'Make your site pretty.'
It all began about six months ago. I am a member of a club, who wanted me to design a website for them. I had heard about Homestead from banners on the net saying it's free and wonderful. So I clicked on to their site ... ...with the machine - apparently I was already a member - no, stupid dumb machine.
Well, after several attempts, I was finally accepted. I clicked on the 'Get Building' button. Strangely, it didn't actually take me to the building page. It took me to some ad about how fantastic Homestead was and how I should sign up. So I tried again. Obviously some member of staff had put the wrong page on the wrong URL.
I just don't like this site. They asked me for an e-mail address and I gave them one. I've asked them several times to stop sending their rubbish to me but every day I get 'Homestead News' or 'Make your site pretty.'
It all began about six months ago. I am a member of a club, who wanted me to design a website for them. I had heard about Homestead from banners on the net saying it's free and wonderful. So I clicked on to their site and tried to sign up. After about an hour fighting with the machine - apparently I was already a member - no, stupid dumb machine.
Well, after several attempts, I was finally accepted. I clicked on the 'Get Building' button. Strangely, it didn't actually take me to the building page. It took me to some ad about how fantastic Homestead was and how I should sign up. So I tried again. Obviously some member of staff had put the wrong page on the wrong URL.
But I noticed more problems around the site like that, which are a bit irritating, because generally you have to wait for them to be noticed and then fixed. The only reason I had gone to Homestead was to escape Tripod's problems, but Homestead is even worse!
A few days later, once all the links had been fixed, I tried using the 'Site Builder' which takes hours to download, uses half the computer's memory and isn't that good anyway. So I tried to use it and there were several problems with applications not working correctly and other stuff like that. So, after a week, I gave up. My patience could take it no longer.
I sent Homestead a nice friendly e-mail listing the problems. It took hours to write out. They kindly replied with a nice rude e-mail. I had asked them to delete my account, but I had to wait six months after being inactive. And, today, my account has finally gone - I got the e-mail from Homestead. Thank God. Never, ever use Homestead. This is what I refer to as Free and Nasty. You can do nothing on the site apart from build sites -you can't add guestbooks or anything.
And your site gets absolutely somthered with banners, 90% of them saying 'Do you like hot girls?' or 'NudeCasino.com.' Not for family sites, not for any sites. Homestead should quite simply be shut down. Customer Service has been rated poor because they are so rude.
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Advantages: free service Disadvantages: elements move and delete themselves
...am writing this opinion on homestead.com in response to the opinon by itsmaza. I would agree that homestead.com are irresponsible with people's sites, but then what can you expect. You never get anything for nothing! That's something my granny has taught me over the years.
WHAT IS HOMESTEAD.COM?
Good question! It is a website that offers you free webspace so you can have your own domain. It provides site builder tools and many easy to install jazzy ... ...and also for personal study. You can do anything with a homestead site, it's not just a christian site but i chose to make mine so!
I don't think i would use homestead.com again though but i keep it as it is now!
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Kram_Eniarrol 27.03.2001
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INTRODUCTION Homestead is a great fee-based service that is a web site builder. You are given 15 MB of web space. There are two sides of Homestead. Homestead Personal & Homestead Professional THE lAYOUT & THE DESIGN & THE EASE OF NAVIGATION The Layout of Homestead is very good, it has links to all pages on the index page and it is a very bright and bubbly website. Homestead is very easy to find as it has a quick easy to remember domain name; http://www.homestead.com ... ...Homestead Personal offers: .Interactive Site Design Wizard .Online & Offline .Unlimited Pages .No advertising or Homestead branding on your Web pages .Extensive Graphics Library .25 MB Storage Space .2 Web Sites per Account But all good things must come to an end. Now, Homestead used to be a free web design site but now money has taken over! PRICING For 6 months of Homestead Personal it will cost you $29.99 = $5 a month OR, You could get 1 year of ...
Roberts 23.11.2000 (28.03.2002)
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Advantages: Great looking pages in mega quick time, and loads of enhancments for pages avaliable, Free! Disadvantages: some pages can look strange in certain browsers
If your looking for a easy website then this is the place to set it up! Homestead provide you with the tools and 12MB of space to set up a fully functional add free website, which is a rare thing to find! The uploading is all done via the Homestead editor which you can use either online or download the offline version, as with the rest of the site, this is free! The pages are in the form of http://yoursite.homestead.com/filename.txt but of course ... ...From the begginer to the web expert homestead is a great site, the tools are very easy to use and with the what you see is what you get editor, no HTML knowledge is required - its simply drag what you want to where you want it. The customer support is fantastic and everytime I've contacted them its taken them no more then a day to get back to me, you don't find that everyday in the .com world! When you load up the editor you are given a blank page ...
popstar 15.03.2001
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Advantages: The graphics and effects..very professional looking! Disadvantages: Can't always find answers to your probs in the help section!
Homestead is essentially a great all in one package for those people who want to create their own website. After exploring all it has to offer it is mainly aimed at personal/fun websites BUT what you can come up with is fun/flashy/and stunning.
It also caters for all levels of computer literacy..you can either follow the pre-loaded templates, create your own pages from scrathc using simple drag and drop methods, or if your really advanced then you ... ...for a website...a wide range of fonts/graphics/animated effects, along with messageboards and guestbooks.
Sites built on Homestead are also fully custamizable..you can upload your own pictures or logo's!!
Basically the more you play the better it comes out, the possibilities, and the fun you can have are endless, a great way of inspiring creativity!!
Best of all it's all free, you just pay your net call charges! ...
Lauren_john 26.09.2000
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Advantages: Lots of good little items Disadvantages: Might be a little complex
Homestead is my e-mail and web page server. The interface is easy to understand and quick to use, you can also download it so that you can work from home.
There are a lot of "elements" to use in designing your WebPages, these improve the quality of your site and let you use things such as horoscopes, magic 8-ball (don't know what this is), chat boards, message boards, guest books, counters, etc. I did most of the work at home and modified it using ... ...pages, if it's a member-only site, or if people can only have access to some of the sites, e.g. if you are making a game and no one except the player is allowed into his bit. A good thing is that it registers your site with search engines for you, but this may take a while as search engines must have loads of inputs per day. Another thing is that you can put in storefronts to earn money, but you can choose which ones go on.
One problem is that when ...
ChrisWar666 09.11.2000
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