<div align="justify"><p><u><b>Getting Online</b></u> </p><p><b>Storage space</b> </p><p>Server space becomes a constraint as you start building up your site. Ask yourself ?How much space will I actually need?? HTML pages take up very little space and if you follow the optimisation techniques discussed above, you will save on a considerable amount of space while uploading images.
Choose a free hosting service that offers you upwards of 10 MB of space. For instance, Freeservers.com offers you 20 MB of free space while Yahoo! Geocities offers you 15 MB. </p><p><b>File size limits</b> </p><p>Hosting your pages on free servers across the Internet would gulp down the bandwidth of the service provider. Hence, most of them restrict the size of the files that can be uploaded. For example, www.freeservers.com offers you a 256 KB file size limit, which is the maximum as far as we have seen. Choose a free hosting provider that would offer better file size limits. Freeservers.com also gives its free registrants a maximum bandwidth of 512 MB per month. </p><p><b>FTP access</b> </p><p>For maintaining your site and uploading newer pages, you might require FTP access to your Web space-this is faster than the GUI Web interface. Most free Web space providers don't offer FTP access. It's usually reserved for professional and other paid package schemes. </p><p><b>Site search engine</b> </p><p>You could make your Web site a repository of all your intelligence and knowledge. Now what if someone wants to search your knowledge store for something specific? Does your free service provider offer you the facility of searching your site? Check on it before registering with a hosting service. Freeservers.com offers a site search engine as well as a search engine that can search across similar sites. </p><p><b>Site builder</b> </p><p>If you are a novice on the Web, you might prefer some kind of guidance. While registering for a free hosting service, check if the service provider will assist you with site building templates and tools. Most service providers do that as a part of their effort to promote their services. </p><p><b>Forwarding e-mail</b> </p><p>Certain sites provide you with free e-mail services while others don't. The ones that do provide you with free e-mail also offer a mail-forwarding service. When you have registered a domain such as tintinsclone.freeservers.com and someone sends a mail to anyname@tintinsclone.freeservers.com, it will be automatically forwarded to the e-mail address that you entered in your membership details. You need to activate the e-mail forwarding facility before you can actually use it. If you plan to distribute the mail you receive to other individuals, then enter an e-groups mail ID to which all of them have subscribed. Whatever mail you receive at your site will then be forwarded to all the subscribers. </p><p><b>Sundry features</b> </p><p>Other features that you could possibly look for could be free site statistics, site counters, message boards, guest books and form e-mailers. Most free hosting sites provide these features. Choose the best from the options you have. </p></div>