Office Live Small Business - Free
Office Live Small Business provides your company with everything needed to create a professional web presence for free, including easy-to-use website design and management tools, and 100 email accounts. You also get a free suite of professional business applications that will allow you to manage customers, projects, and documents and easily share information with employees, customers, suppliers and vendors. All this is security-enhanced, managed, and maintained by Office Live Small Business.
You can also purchase additional features that help promote your business. Get a custom domain name ($14.95/year for a privately registered domain or you could change the name server of your already registered domain to Office Live), your “address on the web,” additional website storage, Premium Email, and more.
Please note that Office Live does not support programs such as WordPress, SugarCRM which require MySQL databases. Office 365 will replace Office Live Small Business as the comprehensive Microsoft productivity service for small businesses. The Office Live Small Business service will continue to run as it does today through at least October 2011. Office Live Small Business customer will be offered 3 months free of the Office 365 service if choose to transition account to Office 365 ($6/Month).
Google Sites - Free
Google Sites is a free and easy way to create and share webpages.
- Create – rich web pages easily
- Collect – all your information in one place
- Control – who can view and edit
Use Google Sites to:
- Plan club meetings and activities
- Share info on a secure company intranet
- Collaborate on a team project
- Stay connected with family members
WordPress - Free
You can get a blog started in less time than it takes you to read this sentence. All you need is an email address. You’ll get your own WordPress.com address (like you.wordpress.com, you can switch to a custom address later if you’d like), a selection of great free and customizable designs for your blog (themes), 3 gigabytes of file storage (that’s about 2,500 pictures!) and all the other great features listed here. You can blog as much as you want for free, your blog can be public to the world or private for just your friends, and premium features are completely optional.
SimpleScripts - Free with limits
SimpleScripts provides easy one-click management of over 70 of the web’s top applications, including WordPress, Joomla, phpBB, Roundcube, Gallery, and more. SimpleScripts is a “hosted service”, so you can add applications to your existing web hosting account, whether or not your host supports it!
Some web hosting companies such as iPage integrate SimpleScripts into their Control Panel.

