santhana, you have to think about vps or dedicated, but you can try a shared hosting when starting.

IMO, the free web hosting will most likely rely on the advertisment revenue.
i rather offer cheap hosting like $20/year.

In dreamweaver, there is a feature that enables you to convert tables into layers and vice versa. Start it as a layer, and when it is positioned correctly, convert it into a table.

I hope this works for you.

Well after reading several posts i have thought about what you need.

It depends on how many free accounts you are going to give out, a large reseller package is what you will need if you are wanting to give out more then about 5 accounts as this will be 25gb in total. Or buy a small dedi which can get you upto about 500gb space and about 2.5tb bandwidth which should be enough. You should also think about how you are going to support the costs each month/year for the hosting, will it be ad's or just friendly donations. Post or reply if you need a detailed look into your options mate

ericsoberian, is the best one for ones who working with templates.

geocities is good, i've been using it for a long time

What I would do is start with a Reseller package, and work my way from there. sure it may not give you the satisfaction of saying "Our servers" this and "Our servers" that, but you'll end up saving a lot, by simply not forking over as much money in the time that you are awaiting traffic.

I say this because, naturally, the world will NOT know of your services, and they may not for some time. While your busy, trying to gt traffic and potential clients, days may pass without even the slightest of an account! By renting a server, this is loads of money wasted. If, however, you had a reseller account, it would not impact you so heavily.

I would think that once you reach a decent amount of customers on the Reseller account, you could then move onto a VPS or a dedicated server.

Best of luck to you!

Andrei Popa

When starting a business such as this; wouldn't it be recommended to set it up on YOUR OWN server instead of someone else's?

Opinions. Comments. Facts welcome

Buy a dedicated serve from godaddy or liquid web and then do it