Well, NOTHING is free. Webshots makes its money by charging for printouts and by advertsing photo equipmemt and supplies.

Most sites are free but are festooned with annoying ads. You know, kinda like NBC, ABC and CBS.

Most people don't understand the costs involved with running a website. Bandwidth can get expensive! This is why only a tiny fraction of all websites are free AND free of ads. The exception would be those run by another organization - such as those run by your employer, your state government, your utility company, etc. or those who are simply advertsing their own wares, such as those run by Iams or Tidycats, for instance.

Although I do find them annoying, I put up with the ads, because the alternative is that I would be paying alot more to surf the web than I am now.