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While $70 for two years of your own domain
name isn’t really cheap, Register.com throws in some perks to make life easier for beginners.
Once you’ve found an available domain and your credit card has cleared, you can start building
a Web site of up to three pages using Web-based tools. You cannot upload your own.
Three layout menus, looking not unlike a slot machine, offer categories such as Personal, Occasions, Seasonal.
You can modify those with themes like Sunset, Happy Holidays and Birthday. The final layer offers options titled
Standard, Photo Album, Classic, etc.
Fortunately, you can preview your work before making a final choice, and even then can go back at any time for
a makeover.
Once you’ve settled on a look, you can fine tune it by selecting from a limited number
of text fonts and sizes, and a whole lot of colors.
Depending on your layout, you can upload from one to six 300x300 pixel images of your own per page. If you’re link
happy, there’s room for up to nine per page, plus an email link to your current address.
One of the nicest things about having your own domain name is having a custom address. If you’ve registered your
family name, say Weiser.com, your address can be Bud@Weiser.com. Register.com allows only one address and your
email is Web-based.
When you move to a Web hosting service, you will probably be allowed to use any number of @Wieser.com addresses
and have them forwarded to your POP account (not Web-based).
Register.com offers a mailing list function so you can email a Web site birth announcement to your friends and
family.
Though these freebies leave much to be desired, and include a banner ad, it’s better to experiment for $35 a year
than spend about $25 a month for a Web hosting service.
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