Most recently, Lycos has launched a new Web page creator tool called Webon. At first glance, I see this new tool a sort of user-friendly service like Google Sites. It help a user to create Web page without any prerequisite of HTML, or programming language skills. Upon visiting the site, you can go to the “create new site” page and create your own Web page.

Currently, Webon offers five (5) different kits for you to design a site that suite your Web site proposition. They are blog, photo album, personal site, travelogue, as well as wedding site. To create your own personal site, Webon has provided a rich-text editor, and a template for your site. However, in order to publish your site, you’ll need to register with them, and you’ll have an option to add an username on the site you’ve created, but notice that there’ll be a sub-domain webonsites.com as your site’s URL address. Example will be the test site that I’ve created just now, i.e. tagedge.webonsites.com.

Webon is operating on a versioning plan in which it allowed users to upgrade their free sites to a so-called “Webon Personal Plan.” Webon Personal Plan comprised of a $8.95/monthly charge that help a user to publish her Webon site with her own preferred domain and the availability of upload an unlimited number of images.

Webon was founded on the concept that there’s a lot of Web site building applications that are either too specialized, too much hassle, or too little control on the Web. To overcome all these problems, they’ve created Webon for the sake of novice users and help them to understand indeed Web designing really that simple.

Meanwhile, I’m a bit confuse when come across another open-source project called Webon. It is served as a Web site managing project, developed by Shintaro Fujiwara. But definitely this one you’ll need to configure it on your Web server in order to create a simple Web site.