Often people will be tempted in by companies that offer them a free website. There are a number of companies out there that allow you to design your own website for either a very small monthly fee or even for free. You may wonder what the catch is with these sites and if they are ok to use. Although some of these sites can give people a cheap way of having an online presence, they are not very good if you are serious about competing online. They often are made using a basic template than can only have a few small amendments made to it. You usually have to create the website yourself using a drop and drag function. The problems start when you have issues with the site not displaying as it should on one browser or you cannot get an element to fit exactly where you need it to. Unless you have coding experience the chances are you will not be able to fix a lot of these issues yourself. You may then have to pay for their programming team to rectify it for you or try and hire your own. Even if you do hire your own, they may not be able to have the access to the code that they need to change.