If you're looking for a place to build your home page or store your files, check out this impressive list of services who offer free webspace.  Be prepared to accept some advertising gimmicks for their free offers.   Some, such as Geocities, have those annoying pop-up window ads and others, such as Xoom, paste their header on at the top of your pages.  Methods vary with the hosting service.  All in all, even with the ads, it's a pretty good deal.  Most offer a multitude of goodies, such as page counters, guest books and page building tools.   Keep in mind these services give you webspace so they can sell advertising.   The more members they collect, the more valuable their ad space becomes.  We can't speak for all the services on this list but we have tried many of them at one time or another.

Acme City
20 MB of space, community environment, email, message board, HTML help.  Fairly large header will appear at the top of your pages but it includes a search engine.

Angelfire Communications
5 MB of space, community environment, page counters, page editor, graphics library you can link to and not use up your webspace, no paid ads allowed but you may promote your own business, free email is available.  Angelfire is owned by Lycos.  It appears the ads appear on their pages but none are placed on your pages.

CrossWinds
Unlimited space, yes, UNLIMITED, free email, Majordomo mailing lists, CGI access, page counter and tons of great stuff.  One of the better services for business or personal sites.  No ads are required on you pages from what we viewed.

CyberCities
25 MB of space,  POP email account, free domain name search and registration available, free domain parking, low-cost, full hosting services available for domain when you are ready.  No advertising is required on your pages.

Dencity.com
25 MB of space, comes with a bulletin board and daily stats are available to show who is visiting your pages.  No banner ads are permitted on your pages.  Unknown if they require their ads on your pages.

EasySpace
25 MB of space, free email account, some member support and more.   A banner or image link is required on your pages but you can choose from several and some are very small.

EmailChoice.com
15 MB of storage space to use for transferring files, online diary, message boards, reminder service, bookmark manager and a great online email service.  Home page service will be offered in the future.

ememories.com
Free service will create a picture album from your uploaded images.  Presented in framed pages that contain banner ads for ememories and their sponsors. Visitors can leave comments and you will be notified by email when they do.  Your choice of private or public viewing.  Very nice service and pictures are displayed nicely.

Fiberia Free Web Pages
11 MB of web space, FTP access for uploading, CGI for dynamic web pages, SSL secure pages. Free mail form script and counter are included.  Large header appears at the top of your pages.

Fortune City
20 MB of space, large community style environment, free email account, page builder and FTP service.  Very nice service with good community spirit and lots of goodies.  A large banner/navigation image appears on the top of your pages but it seems a fair price for what you get for free.

Free Speech Internet Television
25 MB of space, access to RealServer, unlimited transfer.  No commercial sites and you must join to receive your space.  Very nice site for anyone interested in audio/video web publication.  No ads are required.

FreeYellow
12 MB of space, banner ads are encouraged and affiliate program is offered.  Banner ad appears on your pages.  Very commercialized but service is decent.

fsn - free sites network
30 MB of space for hosting your top level domain (www.yourdomain.com) or a virtual domain (yourname.fsn.net) in exchange for placing their ads at the top and bottom of your pages.  Unlimited data transfer, no set up fee and your own FTP account.  There are very few services offered and the ads on the pages are a pain but there are almost no limitations on content.  Adult sites are welcome as long as they remain within fsn's guidelines.

Geocities
11 MB of space, large community environment, tons of goodies including, counters, guest book, search box, games, headlines and java.  Geocities is one of the oldest and largest of the free web space providers and has recently teamed up with Yahoo.com.   Ads permitted by approval.  Annoying pop-up window ad appears if you don't opt for the top of your page banner ads.

TheGlobe.com
12 MB of space, very large community environment, free email, page building tools, calendar and address book.  Services and goodies too numerous to mention.  Large header ad appears at the top of your pages.  A very good offering even with the ads.

GO Network
Appears to be unlimited space for your pages if you sign up for their personal start page, free email, handy moving service to copy your current site to their service, and page builder.  Unknown if FTP is permitted or the type of ads, if any, placed on your pages.

Homepages for the Homepageless
3 MB of space, guest book, page counter, other items available for free area.  A bit off-beat community type setup.  Site is hard to navigate but interesting.  Small banner link must be added to the bottom of your pages.  A division of TrailorPark.com.

Hometown AOL
2 MB of space per screen name. (You can have up to 5 screen names per account so it could total 10 MB of space)  Community style environment, well policed for violations of building regulations, quick, easy page builder, search features, guest book, counters and other features.  Nice for AOL users.  Large header appears on the top of your pages.
(Foot Note:  AOL users may also FTP to their account names and avoid the AOL advertisements but there is no community support.)

iGiftShops
200 MB of space, Control Panel, FrontPage extensions, CGI-scripts collection, shopping cart, CyberCash and you get paid a commission for sale of their gifts.  Not a site to build a personal homepage but a great service if you have an interest in starting an online business.

iVillage - The Women's Network
5 MB of space, free email, large community environment for women, other nice features included for your page and membership.  Membership to iVillage is required to get free space but there is no charge for joining.  Pleasant site with nice services.    Standard ad/navigation banner appears on the top of your pages.

Lycos
Appears to be 11 MB of space, community type environment, free email account available from MailCity, easy to use page builder, graphics and photo library, page templates and other features.  Lycos is affiliated with Tripod and Angelfire.

Max Pages
100 pages to a site. Max Pages does not create true HTML files so the limit is expressed in pages rather than megabytes.  Use of images is restricted to MaxPages' library.  Using your own images or HTML files disqualifies you from their free status.  Guest book, search and lots of other goodies.   Banner ads are placed on your pages by their page builder.

McAfee Online
15 MB of space to be used for homepage or personal file storage that is accessible from any of your computers, email account, online calendar, photo album, message board, address book and task list.  From the creators of the best known virus protection programs, their Briefcase deal is hard to beat.  Unknown if ads are required on your pages.but with all they offer it would be a small price to pay.  You have to see this one to believe it.

MSN Homepages
12 MB of space, large community type environment, page builder service with lots of templates and high-tech features, EZ Web Transfer to move your existing site to your new MSN address, free email account available from HotMail, keyword search of members' pages, and much more.  Annoying pop-up ad window, but worth the aggravation for what you receive.  Typical of MicroSoft, it has it all and it's user friendly.

MyFamily.Com
Unsure of the space limits but it must be sizable due to the features they offer.   Personal news bulletin board, calendar, family album, family file cabinet for sharing GEDCOM files and others, chat area with notification of who's online, email handler, bookmark organizer, family tree viewer, recipe file, kids pages and much more.   If you are into genealogy or keeping family together, this is THE place for you.   Pages follow their templates and their logo and ads appear on your pages.

NetTaxi
10 MB of space, one free email account, community type environment, page builder and access to chat, bulletin boards and more.  Large header ad/navigation bar appears on the top of all your pages.

ProHosting
15 MB of space, 1 FTP account, and best of all: NO ADS required.   Good service and no catches other than an occasional email ad from ProHosting.

Spree.com
Unlimited space when you sign up as a partner and put their products on your page, guest book, page counter, chat, and more.  Your site serves as an advertising billboard for their products but you get paid for it and all the free space you want.  Works out well for some people.

Tony-Net
Unlimited Web space anunlimited web space, access to all of the latest Front Page extensions, CGI and Perl, DNS, Real Audio Streaming, free email, and newsgroups.   Notice:  Free Service has been suspended.  Unknown if it will be available at a later date.

Tripod
11 MB of space, page builder, lots of great options, large community style environment, lots of page goodies, and images.  Annoying pop-up ads.  Still one of the best available free deals in spite of the pop-up window.

Virtual Avenue
20 MB of space, CGI access, SSI, Frontpage, FTP support, unlimited traffic, domain transfer, www.yourname.com or a virtual domain - www.yourname.virtualave.net, and much more.  You are given a choice of putting their banner ad at the top of your pages or having a pop-up window ad.  This deal seams almost too good to be true.
Notice: If you choose to use a domain name, there is a $70 fee from InterNik but no charge from Virtual Avenue for their assistance in securing it.

Web Jump
25 MB of space, unlimited bandwith, Standard Perl/CGI/Scripts, page builder, file manager utility, and other goodies.  Good service and support.  A header with ads appears at the top of all your pages.

Xoom!
Unlimited space, yes I did say UNLIMITED.  They increased their old deal of 11 MB and threw in a few more deals to boot.  Large community style environment, free email account, huge library of clipart, page builder, affiliate deals offered, chat room and lots more.  A moderate navigation bar/ad apears at the top of your pages but it's worth it for what you get.  One drawback is their slow speed.