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The new Freewebs logo.

Freewebs is a free web hosting website started in 2001. Freewebs was founded by CEO Haroon Mokhtarzada and his brother, CTO Zeki Mokhtarzada. Other staff include president Shervin Pishevar, vice president of marketing and operations Robert Ewald, and vice president of products and programming Rick Robinson. Freewebs has supported many new movies and different websites.

Freewebs is a free, do-it yourself website builder, that allows people to make their own web sites. There are three ways of going about this, each for users with different levels of HTML coding knowledge. You can chose to make it with HTML or with their easy site builder. As of October 18, 2006, there are 42 different styles for templates, each with their own subcategories (colors, specific themes, etc.). For users with knowledge of CSS, a style.css file is created in the File Manager, and users may update it through the Easy Site Builder's Site Manager. For members with advanced knowledge of HTML and other codes, a downgrade to HTML-Only mode option is available. Then, the HTML Mode's Site Manager becomes similar to the File Manager, and all pages are shown as their .htm(l) files. These files can be modified using the Freewebs WebzEdit™ text editor.

There are two ways to edit a web page on one’s website. Users may either use a WYSIWYG page editor, or an HTML editor. Although the free membership does not originally contain any forced advertisements (if using the advanced HTML editor), they do require placement of the "freewebs toolbar". An HTML code for the toolbar is provided, but it is up to you to put it on your freewebs website. However, freewebs does not state any consequences for not having this toolbar, so it is unclear what actions they will take if a case similar to this were to arise. The majority of Freewebs member's sites include forced advertising to other people using the website.

Screenshot of a template picker.

Recently, Freewebs made some updates to their products including: 1) The photo album and file uploader - they came out with a java based file uploader that allows drag and drop from the desktop and uploads multiple files at once 2) They redesigned the site manager and cleaned up the interface 3) They added Forums (beta), which allows users to have a discussion board on their Freewebs website

Freewebs homepage

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