The first thing you need to do is decide if this is going to be a business or a personal web site. A personal web site can be fairly easy. There are many hosting service that will handle the registration and they also have easy step by step software installed on their server to help you with building the site.

A personal site can be hosted for free usually with a advertisement banner across the top of the page. A really neat site that offers the most web space for free I found was 0catch.com. They give you 100meg of web space. This is excellent for a personal site as it gives you plenty of room to place pictures and some downloads. It will come with a site with "yourname.Ocatch.com". The servers there are very reliable and I have experienced very little if any downtime to the sites I have there. They include a 3rd party web template package that will walk you through building you first site very quickly. You can do like I did and spend hours of research and come to this same conclusion. If you decide the latter I recommend going to American Tradur and look at creating free web sites section.

A business site should be done with a lot of planning in advance. If the business is already has a real world presence then you need to decide how to lay out the site to represent the existing clientele as well as the new ones from the WWW. If it is a new business then you have a chance now to start a firm foundation for a great future. The benefits of a internet business is that it can be run from anywhere in the world with the internet access available today. A good example is the American TradUR. This started out as a home business but is presently growing well beyond the original expectations. For the past year the owner has been living in Indonesia updating and handling business affairs from there. As with any business you need to have a plan for initial financing, record keeping, local and state laws, and an office.

If you are seriously starting a business for a product and do not have web design experience you should consider using a professional design service. You can normally get a website up and running for $500.00 or less without the hassle of doing all the thinking. There are many out there but for service and price is the American TradUR Company Web Design. They are a full service company. They keep their prices lower by using designers based all over the world. they work with each customer on all design requirements and are more than willing to adjust the site for you long after it is in operation.