These days a business must have a website to be competitive; with so many people looking for businesses on the Web, there's just no alternative. Fortunately, Homestead makes it easy to get your own website—Free! Homestead's free website trial gives you a website free for 30 days; that way you can see what a website can do for your business without having to worry about the cost.

Most people, after all, are not web designers. Free templates make all the difference in the world to those people; they can get going very quickly, and with no risk, if they don't have to pay for a design. Free web templates are the key to getting your own free website going in a hurry. Let us show you how.

Homestead makes it simple to create your own free website, even if you're a complete amateur. We give you a sophisticated, easy-to-use website builder free for your desktop or online—which we'll explain further in a moment—but the key to getting your free website going quickly is the free web templates we provide to give you a head start. We let you choose from among 2000+ free web templates that are sophisticated, fully functional websites "as is," complete with links, suggested content, and images.

They're really free web design templates—each one is hand-created by professionals for a cohesive, efficient look that works well for businesses. Free templates designed as

web-ready sites put you a huge step forward—you don't have to know anything about putting together links, graphics, color types, etc.: you just choose the best-looking web design template—free! (You never have to pay for a free web template at Homestead!)

It's easy to create your own free website when you don't have to start from scratch. But web design templates—free or not—are not enough to let small businesses build the kind of website they need: you need an easy-to use tool to make it your own. So, to help you customize the free web template you choose for your business, we give you an award-winning website builder—free! You don't need to learn a complicated computer language—our free website builder takes all the guesswork out of the process, making it simple to just point, click, drag, and insert your own material into one of the free web templates you've chosen, so you can make yourself a great-looking website!

We provide SiteBuilder, our award-winning website builder, free to every Homestead customer. We made a decision early on that our customers needed a free website building tool that was flexible enough to let them get really creative with their websites, yet so easy to use that they wouldn't have to. A simple site, or an elaborate one—there's no limit to what you can do with SiteBuilder. Free web templates that are fully functional websites as-is, free website builder tools that win awards, and a 30-day trial that let you use both to get a free website—that's a winning combination. If you have questions, let us know—we're always happy to help!