Like Angelfire, NetColony is a simply but solid service. NetColony recommends its free hosting for personal and what it calls "business brochure sites", so it's well suited for most needs.
While NetColony offers for-pay hosting, with many frills, its free service is pretty basic. You get 100 MB of space for your Web site files, as well as a personalized e-mail address. On top of that, NetColony has a WYSIWYG page builder that enables you to create and edit the pages of your site without having to know HTML and without needing to transfer files to and from your PC.
When you sign up for your NetColony account, you get to choose the URL for your Web site. Well, within reason. You're stuck with http://www.netcolony.com/(site name), for example, http://www.netcolony.com/mySite. But you do get to specify information about your site, like its title, some keywords (for search engines), and a brief description of the site. You can also tell NetColony what your skill with Web design is (beginner/intermediate/expert), and choose whether you want to use the service's templates to build your site or if you will do the job the old fashioned way.
NetColony's technical support isn't bad, but for the free service it's only available online. On the other hand, the 100MB of space that NetColony provides is plenty, even for multimedia files like video and music.