These days, with social media so user-friendly and ubiquitous, fewer average Joes/Janes are interested in creating their own web site. For years, Microsoft Office 365 did website hosting but rather abruptly went from fishing to cutting bait 4-5 years ago, much as they did with their photo-hosting service years before that. While there are many website hosts, I can personally recommend Host Monster web hosting, where you'll get an HTML editor, one that generates nice, clean code to which you have immediate access (a great way to learn). You'll find them at Host Monster - Web Hosting.

I would be remiss if I failed to mention Yahoo, which also offers good web hosting at a competitive price. If you are code-illiterate, they offer several options, but you can enter your own code as well. Note: The best browser for Yahoo and Host Monster is Mozilla's browser Firefox. I recommend you use it to find them at Yahoo Small Business Hosting.

Most word processors, including Microsoft Word, enable you to save your work as a Web Page. Many editors of the "What You See Is What You Get" (WYSIWYG) variety are available at no cost. These editors tend to make your pages easy to create and the dickens to edit. Still, go ahead and use them to get you started.

If you want to learn more about writing your own code (html, png, asp, css, xml etc.), I recommend you add the following very helpful sites to your favorites:
w3schools.com
HTML Goodies The ultimate html resource

Here's a great WYSIWYG HTML editor that yields code that is not only easy to create, but a joy to edit: ISDNtek WYSIWYG HTML Editor. I've gotten a world of FREE help from Shipscript at ISDNtek.

Among the many changes at Microsoft is their downgrade of Windows Explorer, which was the go-to place for File Transfer Protocol (ftp), a crucial part of website hosting. All is not lost, though! MS recommends the use of FTP Client, and perhaps the most popular of these applications, FileZilla, is safe and FREE software and a delight to use. You can download the application here: FileZilla - The free FTP solution. If you are interested, I suggest reading this page before you start the download: "How to safely download and cleanly install filezilla ftp software with no additional junk" - by Jim Dee|Web designer/Web developer. I would add that you may need to set Windows Security to allow the FileZilla Bundle Installer to run on a Windows 10 OS since it is rated a low-level threat by default - just follow Window's prompts.

Last but not least, my sincere thanks to FrontierNet technical support who've kept this site available for many many years! (9/3/2021 JED)