The steps for building a website are really not that complicated:

1. To start with you either need to be an expert at coding HTML, PHP, ASP, Java Script or…. better yet, don’t worry about knowing anything and just get yourself a website builder, a program or tool that puts together a website for you with little effort .The tools can be gotten for free or purchased and others are available for a nominal cost (considering what they can do) if you have something “special” in mind.

These applications, along with some templates that you can also get for free or purchase, let you put together web pages without much knowledge when it comes to HTML.

Bet you-re thinking that these things are expensive. Go ahead and do a search on Goggle or Yahoo for “free website builder”…., what did you find?….a few hundred thousand sites with them. Go ahead and get a few, try them out, I’m sure you’ll find at least one that works.

But … you say, “I have a real job where I work 40 – 50 hours a week, I have a family and lots of other commitment on my time, I don’t have the time to work a second job”. There are also programs you can purchase, quality ones for way under $100, that won’t just help you put together one page, they will build an entire site for you. Some will build you a small, quality, content filled website of 5 – 10 pages, other will build you a thousand page website in a matter of minutes.

These allow you to put in some articles that you wrote, or had written for you (.doc or .text), the content of the page, or a bunch of keywords, and when you click the “Go”button they generate a few pages or a thousand pages, whatever you wanted.

2. Register a domain name. A “catchy” name that is some what related to what you are selling or your website.

3. Another of the steps for building a website is to get a “host” for your website. The host is where you will put the files of the website, the bog, databases, etc., and they will put your website up on the Internet.

4. Now you actually need to have something to put on the pages of your website. If you are hoping to sell stuff, and maybe make some money selling products from our store, ebooks that you created or bought resale rights to, affiliate products, or have Adsense on your site, then you need to have original and informative content that puts the visitors to your site in a buying mood.

Like the website builders I mentioned up above you can purchase original articles for the pages of your site. Writers on the Internet are pretty easy to find and for $5 – $20 you can the content you need.

Pretty simple huh? Sure you do need work on some search engine optimization items, such as the keywords and meta tags of the pages of your new website.

Now that your site is up on the Internet you need to start working on getting visitors to come by your site. And the way you do that, among other things, is to submit the site to search engines, directories, maybe even pay per click. But the important thing is already done, building a website and putting it up on the Internet