Your ISP - Before you start looking into using another free service you might want to check with your local ISP to see if you have space for your personal web site.  Most
ISP's give you 2-5 Mb for your personal web site.  Beware though,  you may only be allowed a specified amount of file transfer.  Which means if you have a large or popular site you may end up paying for more than your

Xoom - My favorite, 11MB of free web space for your homepage.  Doesn't require you to put their banners up on your page.  Lots of extras.

Geocities - Free personal homepage and e-mail, has an on-line editor, allows up to 3mb.  Requires Geocities banners..

Fortune City - similar to Geocities only you get 10MB of web space.

Web Village - 2MB of web space allowed, requires a link to them.

Angelfire - 200kb, has pop up windows though.

Phrantics Trailepark - 3MB of free space; sign up for the next phase!

Tripod - 5MB of free web space, on-site homepage writer available.  Uses footer ads.
 

Web Page Editors

Netscape Communicator - I use this one and I love it.  This is an easy to learn program for beginners, once you get past the beginners stage you can go right to the text editor to work with more HTML and JAVA that this program doesn't have.  Go here to download the new Communicator program by Netscape.

Anansi Web Page Editor - Easy to use, great for beginners, and it's a free program.

Go here to see a list of Web page Editors.
 

Guestbooks
Dreambook - I use this one in two of my web sites.

Guestworld - II've seen alot of people use this guestbook.

Alamak - I haven't tried this guestbook, so I'm not sure how well it works.