The Bottom Line
Build Your Own Sharable Web site. You choose what you want your sharable Web site to be about and set up the homepage for your new site. Then create topic pages and invite people to come share your site with you. They will be able to add to the pages, change the pages, create pages and more. Your own fully customizable community.
Wikispaces will host your sharable Web site for free. Have as many pages on your site as you want. Wikispaces lets you and your group create and build a Web site that you can add to, change and enhance.
Pros
- Builds community
- Customizable
- Everyone can share
- Free
- Can make private or public
Cons
- Most features are free but some are not
Description
- Pay Feature: Ad Free - No more ads on your site, not from other people anyway.
- Free Feature: Unlimited Pages - The free service lets you have unlimited pages, messages and users on your site.
- Pay Feature: Full Privacy - Make your site so private that only you and your members will ever even see it.
- Free Feature: File Storage - Up to 2GB of space to store your files, photos, music and anything else you want to add.
- Pay Feature: Custom Themes - Change the colors, layout, and everything else about the way your site looks.
- Free Feature: Easy Design Editing - You get what you see. Your page will look the way you type it.
- Pay Feature: Domain Name - Make your site's URL www.name.yourname.com or www.yourname.com .
- Free Feature: Backups and Privacy - Back up your site and choose to make your site public, private or only for members.
- Free Feature: Themes - Choose a theme for your site and even change the colors and add a logo.
Guide Review - A Personalized Web Site You Can Share
What Can It Be Used For?
- Family - Keep your family up to date. Create a scrapbook and add stories. Let your family members add their stories and photos of your kids too.
- School - If you're a teacher you can create a site where you add assignments and your students add their essays. That way the whole class can benefit.
- Groups & Clubs - Have a group or club that you need to keep updated on current events? Let them all post their events and hold discussions about group activities.
- Anything You're Interested In - Want to start an online group about something you love so you can find other people who love it too? Do it! All the members of your site can share their stories and opinions.
What Do I Get Free?
All this for free.- Unlimited Pages - The free service lets you have unlimited pages, messages and users on your site.
- One Space - You can only have one Web site for free, but you get unlimited pages on that site.
- File Storage - Up to 2GB of space to store your files, photos, music and anything else you want to add.
- Easy Design Editing - Your page will look the way you type it. The buttons on the editor help you change fonts, add links to your text, add pictures and other files and more.
- Themes - Choose a theme for your site and even change the colors and add a logo.
- Backups and Privacy - You can back up your site and make your site public, private or only for people who you make members of your site.
- Much More - See the features page.
How Do I Get Started?
- Go to Wikispaces.com.
- Fill out the "Join Now!" form on the homepage.
- Write up your homepage. If you don't want people changing the homepage you can make it a protected page.
- Create more pages on topics you want people to discuss. Create pages for those topics.
- Build your navigation bar.
- Choose your privacy level.
- Invite people to join you new site.