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Time Warner Cable (part of AOL Time Warner, which also publishes this magazine) similarly suggests that its high-speed Internet customers who are interested in networking check out a website featuring products by Sohoware, a Linksys competitor. For now, the promotion is limited to a few markets, including Wilmington, N.C., and Portland, Maine...
...AOL's 1-2-3 Publish is the easiest to use but at the expense of personal creativity. Also, it allows only one photo per page. Yahoo PageWizards takes a little more time to figure out but is more useful. It prompts you for everything--pictures, text, choice of borders, background and clip art. Homestead's SiteBuilder goes further than the others, letting you organize multiple pages with a common visual theme and add maps, site counters and funky text effects. It even automatically sets up site navigation so your visitors can find their way around...
...AOL and Yahoo also offer more powerful editing tools that let you click and drag images and text onto your home page. These programs let you see your page in wysiwyg (for "what you see is what you get") as you're working on it. Both the AOL tool, Easy Designer, and the Yahoo editing application, PageBuilder, are easy to figure out. But because the site-building tools are on the Net rather than on your hard drive, editing tends to be a little herky-jerky...
Yahoo's GeoCities Web service has the advantage of a better file manager, so once your site is up you can go back and easily edit the components, link them together and even add others that you created somewhere else. With AOL's tools, file management isn't so easy...
...free, Homestead charges $49.99 a year to host your page after a 14-day trial period. Some users might find it preferable to GeoCities, which puts advertising on your home page. AOLers don't pay extra for their home page--it's covered by their monthly service fee. (AOL Time Warner is the parent company of this magazine...