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Mr Site Takeaway Website isn't a program that you install on your PC; it's a hosting service that comes with a built-in web-design package. Compared with other hosting companies' web-design tools, this one is very good. Designing a simple site takes only a few minutes. You just choose a template from one of the many on offer, decide on your colour scheme and fill the content frames with text and images.

The service also allows you to add interactive and dynamic features, such as a guestbook and an audio jukebox, to your site. As with the basic page elements, you add these features using Mr

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Site's easy menu system. Publishing your site to the web is also straightforward. Simply click on Publish Your Site and your files are uploaded to the server you specified during setup. As well as the web-design tool, your package buys you your own domain name, a year's worth of hosting and 20 email addresses (name@yourdomain.com).

Simplicity does, however, come at a cost. Although there are many templates on offer, they all follow a very similar basic layout: a header, a footer and left-hand navigation. As a result, no matter what stylistic quirks and odd fonts you apply, your design choices are limited and the different templates all have a similar look and feel.

The Mr Site web-design package imposes far more restrictions on the user's choices than we'd expect from an ordinary program that you install on your desktop. However, it's far better than other web-design packages provided by hosting services that we've seen. When you also take into account the speed with which you can get a site online and the competitive price of the hosting services, Mr Site is good value for anyone who wants to put a good-looking site online quickly without having to learn web design.