These $10 website things aren’t all beer and skittles mind you. In fact you’d actually be better off spending your $10 on beer and skittles. Drinking beer isn’t too tricky for “nontechies”.

There are some downsides to these free hosting services. Each offers several dozen design templates, but you could still end up with a site that looks pretty generic, unless you have Web-design skills or hire someone who does. What’s more, most of these services don’t offer an easy, one-click way to add flourishes such as shopping carts or more than two columns on a page; that, too, takes some know-how. Mostly, you just arrange pictures, text and other elements, and that’s it. And, sometimes, even doing that can be tricky for nontechies.

Remember you get what you pay for, which isn’t much.