When I was presenting a seminar recently on creating a simple home-based business, I asked the attendees whether they thought producing a website was too complex a task for them to do themselves. About 85% of the people there did think exactly that, and that consequently they need to bring in an expensive expert to do it for them.

The great news is that this is a complete misconception! If you can buy things online, send and receive emails, produce a letter in a word-processor, and copy files from one disk to another - you have all the skills you need to set up and create your own website. In fact you could have it live within an hour from now. The reason I said ‘by tomorrow’ is that it takes 24 to 48 hours typically for the name of your site to get recognised around the world from the moment you register it.

I’m going to be putting up screen capture videos to show you step-by-step exactly what to do. Here is the first one (Just click the play button to watch it):

Here is the list of web-hosting companies and other services that you might need. All these have been used by me, or by associates of mine and found to be reliable and good value.

Here is the second lesson, giving you a grounding in basic web-page editing: