I’d recommend excite.com to new Internet users or anyone who wants a free, web-based e-mail account.
Advantages of an excite.com account:
You can customize your home page to your liking with color schemes and other features such as television guides, quote-of-the-day, ’’Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff’’ inspiration, and news, for example.
You don’t actually have to sign in to see if you have e-mail. Signing in and having no new mail is disappointing. With excite, you don’t have to bother. The site will let you know in red that you’ve got mail, if you do.
You can have more than one excite account, if you would like to use it for your mouthshut.com contact, for example.
The interface is very easy to use. A user can easily select e-mail, read or store it quickly. It’s easy for a new user. I recently helped a new user set up a yahoo account, and the screen was so ’’busy’’ or crammed with items that the person had trouble understanding it. I think excite.com is much clearer. It just has a better design.
Toll-free voicemail for United States users.
Disadvantages:
Excite.com can be oh-so painfully s-l-o-w sometimes!
If you want to check your various excite.com accounts, you’ll have to do it one at a time, because web-based e-mail uses cookies. Kind of a pain, but ok for free.
Excite lost my toll-free voicemail account that I’d had for at least a year. Not cool. Good thing I wasn’t depending on it, or didn’t have it on a business card.