Best Place To Create a Free Personal Website – Freewebs – Site Wins Most Outstanding Website Award

Best Place To Create a Free Personal Website – Freewebs – Site Wins Most Outstanding Website Award

Teens Honored with National Award at the 29th Annual TARS Leadership Conference

New York, NY – August 1, 2007 –Freewebs, the company that offers the web’s most open personal publishing platform and helps people unleash their creativity with free website building tools (www.freewebs.com), today announced one of its members’ websites has won a national award for most outstanding Teenage Republican (TAR) website. The award winning site–which encourages teens to get involved with politics–is dedicated to uniting conservative teens, includes information on fundraising for candidates, election news, as well as links to state and national news: www.freewebs.com/thstars

Three Torrington high school seniors: Eric Scoville, Lidia Rodriguez, and Rachael Rogers, traveled to the leadership conference in Washington DC where they received the award. The sites creators say they have plans to put up presidential election polls and updates on budgets throughout the upcoming campaigning months. “Freewebs made it fast and easy to create our website. It offered many extras such as guest books, forums and a photo album and the url is very memorable and easy to understand,” said Eric Scoville.

“Freewebs is an easy-to-use publishing platform which allows anyone–students, politicians, families, small businesses, school organizations–to easily create a quality website for free,” said Shervin Pishevar, President, Freewebs. “Regardless of which political party young people choose to support, this website is a great example of how Freewebs can bring people together to help express opinions, fundraise and build a community to support a cause.”

Other popular and newsworthy Freewebs sites include:

Sit Here – popular website which encourages people to sit on their front stoop and talk to their neighbors. The site addresses the decreasing culture of social interaction in cities across the United States. The site’s creators formerly coined the movement “Stoop Culture”. www.freewebs.com/sit_here

Community Against Cell Towers – activist website set up by neighbors in CA who volunteered to keep their community informed about the looming plan by the Sprint cell phone company to install 10 commercial antennas throughout their residential neighborhood in Turtle Rock. http://www.freewebs.com/turtlerocktowers/

Cars & Junk – website dedicated to all things cars: famous cars, fancy cars, funny cars – and gives users chances to win prizes and be guest moderators. http://www.freewebs.com/ryan-k/

What’s With Andy? – website devoted to a show about Andy Larkin, a teen boy who likes to pull pranks. Along side with his trusty side kick Danny Pickett, they pull pranks all around the fictional town of East Gackle. http://www.freewebs.com/s8man888/

Paleopedia – popular website self described as a “prehistoric encyclopedia” with lots of information about prehistoric creatures, such as Dimetrodon. It also has a cladogram so you can see where ancestors came from. http://www.freewebs.com/ichthyostega/

The Torrington Teenage Republicans represented New England at the conference. Other states represented were Arizona, Florida, Alabama, North Carolina, Kansas, Kentucky, California, Utah, Tennessee, Texas, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio.

About Freewebs

Freewebs is the company that offers the web’s most open personal publishing platform, dedicated to ensuring everyone in the world can create a quality multimedia website. For anyone with an Internet connection and something to share, Freewebs provides the toolkit to express their voice on the Web through its versatile publishing platform. To date, Freewebs members have created more than 17 million comprehensive websites including blogs, photos, videos, music, e-commerce and more. Founded in 2001, Freewebs is privately held and based in Silver Spring, MD. Please visit www.freewebs.com today.

# # #

CONTACT:

Jo McKenna

Freewebs

646-382-4291

jo {at} freewebs(.)com

Jo McKenna
Freewebs, Corporate Communications
Tel: 646 382 4291
jo {at} freewebs(.)com