BlinkWeb.com: A New, Free Website Builder by Matt Callen

I just found out about a new, free website builder site that's really worth recommending called BlinkWeb.com. It's a free website builder that you can use online to create your own website. And it's been designed to be so easy to use that there's really no more excuse for anyone who's been wanting to build a website to continue putting it off.

BlinkWeb was created by Brad and Matt Callen, who are well known in the internet marketing world. Just Google their names and you'll see that. BlinkWeb uses a "drag and drop" kind of interface where you can choose the type of site you want to create, whether it be a blog, a sales page, or just a regular content type of website. Then you can choose from many different layouts, or templates, and start inserting the stuff you want, wherever you want it to appear on the page. And then - "Presto!" - you have a website built within minutes in whatever style you'd like.

They also have an actual mini-course right on the site on internet marketing, and creating niche information products, etc. There's probably more information and good advice there than you'd find find in so many of those get rich schemes that are always being advertised with high price tags...and yet they give all this information away for free, just to help you get started after you sign up.

But the best news is that BlinkWeb is actually totally free to use and play with all you want. And when you're satisfied with the site you've created, you can either have it hosted right there on their own servers very inexpensively, or you can download your new website as a zip file and save it to your own computer, ready to upload to your own web server.

If you're like me, you're probably wondering how they make their money though, since it's totally free to use. The answer is that they also offer very reasonably priced web hosting, and a big percentage of users will probably opt for that, since they make it so easy to do.

But even if you don't use their hosting, they still get you for a subscription fee to be able to download your completed sites, which you don't find out about until you hit the download button.

So the truth about BlinkWeb is that it's not really totally free to use, like they claim. It's free to join and use - but if you want to keep what you create with it, you do have to pay a small fee to do so. But I think that's fair - especially since you don't have to pay anything before you see what you can create with it first.

They have several different "subscription" options to chose from for downloading. As of this writing, they offer unlimited downloads by the day for only $9.95, or one month for $19.95. (That gives you plenty of time if you have a bunch of sites you want to create.) Plus, they even offer a lifetime subcription for totally unlimited site downloads, all for a single one-time fee. Then you're set to create all the sites you want!

So I think it's pretty brilliant the way it all ties together. Even casual users can now create their own professional looking websites with no help from expensive web designers; and BlinkWeb makes some money on the back end from subscriptions and the huge number of sites that are sure to be hosted right there with them.

It just launched earlier this year (2008), and they say over 27,000 sites have already been created with it - so word must be spreading pretty fast. That's what happens when somebody comes up with an idea that lots of people have been waiting to see.

So if you've been looking to do what I've been dabbling with myself, and that's create some websites to build a business around, this BlinkWeb could be a huge help to you. It's totally free to join and try out, so why not give it a whirl and see what you might be able to create?

Good luck with carving out your own little corner of the internet world!