Fancy a free website?
Yes that’s right, you can have a free website, with a real .co.uk domain name. No I’m not offering ot work for free here, but I am telling you about how you can have a website online for free with a real domain name and no ads.
There is a new government scheme which you can read about here which basically grants you this. The aim is to get British businesses online. You might think this is great but is it really?
I’ve had a little look at this service already and from a web designers view point can see all kinds of limitations. To me I think it will lead to even more inadequate websites being published online. Is that what we really want?
I’m not bashing this entirely. When I first started making websites it was for my music. I had no money and very little web know how. Something like this would have been the answer to my prayers.
My guess is that this will be exploited by businesses trying to cut costs. They will most likely lose sight of why it is their business needs to be online and what they actually need their website to do.
Personally I’m happy to go on paying for my domains and bandwidth and having complete control. Others will no doubt be happy to make the compromise.