A demo is available at http://demo.valuewebdevelopment.com/.

A free website may sound too good to be true and, of course, if it sounds too good to be true, it usually is. But this is the real deal. From a simple informational website, to a blog, to a full fledged, community driven website, we will provide the framework, one Drupal, Joomla or Wordpress installation per customer, for FREE with your purchase of hosting for only $72 per year! That's only $6 PER MONTH! Of course, you can always install your own open source software if you'd like, or even better, use the included Fantastico scripts for one click installs!

How can we do this? How can we give something away for free that many companies charge thousands of dollars for, if not tens of thousands?

We use open source content management systems, my favorite being Drupal, which is freely available as a download from the internet and is installable as a Fantastico script with most web hosts that use CPanel (which we do as do many, many hosts). Open source is free. Most open source software is freely available, comes with the "source code," and is free to modify.

In fact, this website uses Drupal!

Drupal is unique in that I fully believe it's the best content management system around. A base Drupal install is a website in a single package. It includes:

• A login for you the administrator.
• Easy website editing.
• User management with roles for levels of access, and the ability to support thousands of users.
• User account self-service. Account creation, validation of email addresses and automated password recovery.
• Handles all aspects of security.
• Breadcrumb generation.
• RSS Feed generation for front website (suitable for story based websites).
• Multiple theme capable (let users choose the look of the website for their own account, or change for holidays, events, etc.).
• Search functionality searches content and users.
• Supports commenting on all types of content (even by anonymous users).
• Contact form with ability to have multiple subjects (think departments) with multiple recipients.
• Version control of node types.
• Provides extensive framework for inexpensive module development, extending functionality.
• Much, much more.

Themes

The core installation of Drupal provides three very attractive themes, but there are hundreds available for download for free. Your hosting account gives you the tools you need to install and use these themes yourself, or we can install them for you for $10.00 per theme. We also develop custom themes, just ask! I will provide you with instructions on downloading, installing and using themes.

Also for a limited time, we will install every theme available for Drupal version 5 from the Drupal website, for free. A list can be found here. That's currently 158 themes!

Modules

Modules extend the functionality of Drupal. Do you want a blog or a blog for every one of your users? Activate the module. Do you want to mass email your users? Download and install the module. Do you want a highly functional calendar? A forum? A rating system for content? Subscription capability for the content? Even e-commerce? Chances are, there is a Drupal module that does it. If not, we develop custom Drupal modules.

Again, your hosting account comes with everything you need to extend your website using modules, and you will get instructions on how to do so. We also install and configure modules starting at $25.00 per module.

As a bonus, we will install and configure the freely available FCKEditor module, which provides a WYSIWYG editor. This gives you the ability to create beautiful pages without knowing a bit of HTML. The editor uses an interface with buttons to create links, insert images, bold text and even create HTML tables and much much more. The editor loads right in the web page so there's no software to install and you can edit your website from anywhere. I'm using a Drupal installation with the FCKEditor to type this page right now!

What are you waiting for?

These are not your run of the mill, free websites you see for $1.00, and your website can be customized so it doesn't look like anyone else's website. And it's yours for free. If you ever decide to leave, you are free to take everything with you. We will provide you with a verified, full backup of your account which can be installed on another server (using WHM/CPanel), and you will get the remainder of your yearly hosting free refunded to you.

What do you have to lose?