I haven't looked at Homestead.com for years. It used to be the little brother, tagging along behind, Angelfire and a whole raft of free website hosting services that heavily loaded with ads and poor templates. Back then the idea was for newbies to have a free place they could call their own in the wild and woolly pioneer days of the internet. Homestead (www.homestead.com) has changed its business model to providing web site hosting for small businesses and site owners at $4.95 per month after the free 30 day trial. Homestead now emphasizes small business website design. (http://www.homestead.com/~site/small-business-website-design.ffhtml ) using good looking templates for real estate such as (http://www.homestead.com/~site/real-estate-website-design.ffhtml ). If you want something above and beyond a large library of template based designs you can get a custom website design http://www.homestead.com/~site/custom-website-design.ffhtml For your for intry into the world of e-commerce, Homestead eases the way with ecommerce web design options ( http://www.homestead.com/~site/ecommerce-website-design.ffhtml ). Homestead has come a long way from its roots.
The modest monthly fee is a reasonable trade for higher quality looks and dropping the overwhelming ads from your space on the internet. It should provide a useful transition for first time users into a much more complex internet than the one that existed when the Homestead service started.
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