Once upon a time, I had no idea how to build a website. The year was 1998, and my mom had just purchase a Gateway 2000 computer for about $2300. It was a sweet set-up — 21″ monitor (CRT, of course), a generous 4GB hard drive, 64MB of blazing-fast RAM, and a just-released 266mHz processor. We had dial-up thanks to Earthlink, and I decided I wanted to make a webpage for myself. I had no idea how to, so I queried a few search engines (Lycos and AltaVista, IIRC), and then found a bulky, clunky template builder that helped me get up and running.
Twelve years later and not much has changed, well, besides just about everything I described in the first paragraph. But people still want to build websites, and many people don’t know how. You don’t just discover and become madly skilled with WordPress and the hard coding of HTML and CSS overnight. Enter sites like hPage.com. hPage.com allows you to quickly create your own space on the web. With 300MB of space and 300+ templates to play around with, there’s something for everyone. Getting started with hPage.com is as easy as picking a username, a password, entering and verifying your email address (FYI, hPage.com is one of those websites that doesn’t believe .nu is a valid extension, so you’ll need a .com/.net/.org email address), answering the CAPTCHA, then logging in and getting started.
In a matter of minutes I put this together:
It’s simple, yes, with no bells or whistles, but simple and uncomplicated is good for someone who doesn’t have web design skills. I’d definitely recommend this for anyone who wants to quickly set up a personal space. It’s great for tweens and teens, too. In fact, with my brothers coming home in just seven days, I think hPage.com would make a good resource for both of them. They’ve been asking me to set up websites for them, but I just don’t have the time, you know? With hPage.com, they can do it themselves!
