List of Best Free Website Building Services (Create Sites within minute) – Alternatives to Google Sites or Page Creator

Google Sites is simplest page creator tool powered by Google – anyone can build a good looking website in minutes using the built-in templates.
And everything is free - there are no ads on your pages and Google takes care of all the web hosting bills. But still there are some folks who are missing Google Page Creator (Service closed, Google not accepting new sign ups) because you can’t upload HTML pages to Google Sites and are therefore limited to using one of the built-in themes for your site design.

Free Alternatives to Google Page Creator

Here’s a roundup of some website building services that are free and non-technical.

1. Office Live Small Business – While the name may suggest that the service is only for small business owners, just about anyone can create their website here.

Office Live is easy and filled with goodies – you have tons of professional web templates and color themes to choose from, there’re ready-made modules for common tasks like web forms, photo galleries, live maps, email newsletters, etc. plus you can also upload office documents to the website.
Everything is free including web hosting and server space.

2. Weebly – This is powerful but very user friendly and easy web page builder where you start with a blank canvas and build the page by dragging elements that include text, videos, pictures, maps and more.

Geeks can write their own HTML and add them to Weebly pages. There’s support for Google ads as well so you can even monetize sites created inside Weebly. Another advantage – site publishers download their full site with pictures and CSS as a zip file. Free users gets 100 MB of free storage space and there’re no bandwidth limitations.

3. Snap Pages – This is Flash based website editor that is very beautiful and may be a perfect place if you looking to create a small website for sharing some photos and your calendar. The options are slightly limited for non-premium users as they can’t create new pages.

4. Edicy Pages – It’s a new website creation tool that is just perfect for the techie crowd who wants more control over their site layout.
Start by picking a design from the template gallery and then you may completely change the look and feel of your site by editing the blog template similar to WordPress themes or Blogger template. It also supports JavaScript code and like Google Sites, Edicy tracks all changes made to a site.

5. Yola – This is again an easy yet very powerful tool for building websites but unlike competition, Yola is completely free. Images uploaded to Yola can be directly edited in Picnik just like you have in Flickr. The tool also lets you embed Google AdSense ads in web pages much like Weebly.