Homestead

Homestead emerges as a great tool for website building, especially since it is absolutely free during the trial period. There are several designs that can be customized with commercial tools to create great commercial websites.

Designs –
1) Homestead offers over 2000 templates of web pages. Users can choose from these templates in accordance with their industry needs.
2) Not only is the text in place but also the images have been placed according to the industry needs in these templates. More often than not users find that these templates fit perfectly.
3) A simple click and the web page is ready with these templates.

Customization –
Templates might not suit each users need completely and therefore arises the need to make alterations to the web page template.
1) The builder offers an absolutely free library with 250,000 images for users to choose from and add to their web design if they wish.
2) Users can also add their own personal designs. So those looking at a specific company logo and other such specific images, one can add them by a simple drag drop action.
3) Fonts, links and colors can also be customized according to the users taste.

Commercial tools
The builder does offer several commercial tools over and above the design related ones.
1) Domain name and hosting is both offered by the web builder and users need not fret on these two fronts at all.
2) Homestead offers emails that are branded with your domain name.
3) Users can also create forms that help collect visitor information and then develop their marketing strategy based on this information.
4) Paypal services are also made available which allow the client to make a payment for several products in one go.
5) Users can make relevant changes in accordance with their marketing strategy at any given moment of time. Affiliate marketing and banner add placements are also possible along with of course search engine optimized content placement.