There are so many books and information on designing your own website, but I found very few ebooks on how to make your own website.

So I made one (which is free) to help people learn the basics of creating a site.

If you are a beginner trying to figure out the how to of:

• building your own site from scratch
• keyword research
• make money by creating a site
• best software to use
• website layout
• tools needed
• generating traffic to your new site

Then this book is for you.

It does not matter what you are creating a website for and even if you don’t know what you want your site to be about, this basic guide shows you where to get ideas to make your own.

Complete Guide to Creating a Website

It may seem like a difficult task to undertake but I have taken all the steps, consolidated them and explained with images to help you learn.

Make Money by Creating a Site

Even if you are thinking of creating one to make a profit, this guide explains the basics of how and where you can search for profitable website niche ideas.

If you already have an idea, this guide also shows how you can find  micro-niches within a niche area.

Creating a New Site

If you are a beginner this guide will help you learn the steps or if you’re a new webmaster and having problems generating traffic, it shows what you can do to help bring in targeted traffic.

You don’t need any special skills or be proficient in HTML to start building your own.

Complete Guide to Creating a Website

They all wanted me to buy this product and that product.

It seems all of them told me I needed to buy a domain name and web hosting first, then start creating a site.

Heck, how can I even decide on a name when I was not sure of what I will be creating a website for.

I needed help with first of all finding a niche.

Where do I look?  How do I find out if it is profitable? What about competition? Is there alot?

So many questions and the books never gave me answers. Only told me to buy a domain from this registrar and web hosting from this provider.

It was so very frustrating. Even more frustrating when I was trying to make a website that the search engines would find. And better yet, visitors would find me.

My creating websites tutorial does have a lot of steps and I realized there needed to be a quick guide for beginners to make it easy.

So even though there are many steps to creating a website, I decided to create a free quick start book to guide you on how to start building a website.

Before Creating a Website Name

This free book starts you off with learning how to find a profitable niche, doing keyword research and spying on your competitors.

Then guides you on which website software would be good to use for making your own site.

It gives you the basics on helping you start to create your own website from researching a niche to understanding and learning how to drive traffic to your site.

Want to Make Money With Your Website?

Sure you do.  If you don’t know where to start, my quick guide explains to you how you can get into affiliate marketing and start making money with your site.

Not sure if there will be any affiliate programs to fit into your theme?  Don’t worry, as this is a complete tutorial with images to help you find affiliate programs just for your theme.

The tools that are used to research your information before you build are free.

The only costs you will have is for a domain name, hosting and web design software (you can use free).

So take a few minutes and see this Complete Guide to Creating a Website.

Yes, if you are trying to figure out all the steps you need to create your own website.

No, if you have a step by step tutorial to help you through.

You will find it very difficult, time consuming and extremely frustrating to get your own website off the drawing board and live on the Internet if you are not using a guide to help you.

You don’t need to pay someone to build a website for you because even with very little computer skills you can learn how to plan, design and build your own web pages so that the search engines and visitors will be able to find you.

How Can I Create My Own Website Easily?

By having a step by step tutorial which shows you the complete website development process.

Here is a how to create a website tutorial, which is free so you can learn from start to finish the easy way to begin building your own website.

Many sites tell you to register a domain and get web hosting.

Well, there are many more steps that you need to do.

Don’t worry as the free tutorial explains to you how to plan, research niche website ideas, design web pages, search engine optimization, generating traffic to your site and even how to make money from your website even if you don’t have a product to sell.

I have seen so many articles that say creating your own website is so difficult that you should pay someone else to do it.

Don’t Pay Anyone To Create a Website That You Can Do Yourself!

There are many web design software products available online you don’t even need to learn HTML (but it is a good idea).

Even if you don’t know all the internet jargon, this website development tutorial explains everything you need to know.

The great thing about taking the time creating your own site is you will have complete control over it. So that, as you need (or want to make changes) you can do them yourself.

The biggest step is the first one.

I know when I first started creating websites it seemed they never seemed to work.

I was so mad and was ready to quit.

That is the reason I created my website tutorial.

To give others what I did not have when I was learning how to create my own site. A Step-by-Step Website Tutorial.

Wow! With this great opportunity Buy 1 Get 1 Free Special knocking at your door for the New Year now is the time to take that leap.

If you have been thinking of creating a website online and have been putting it off believing that it will be to much since you may not understand the first thing of making the site, then check out SBI!.

Whether you are wanting to work from home due to the economic downturn, be a stay at home mom, a student, or maybe looking for some part-time income.

I love my site that is powered by Site Build It! Because it has all the tools built right in I don’t have to jump from site to site for my keywords, autoresponder, find your competition and more to help create a great site. They will even show you step by step on how to make money from your site.

Because this is a limited time, don’t miss out on this great opportunity!

If you are not sure what type of website you want to create, SBI can help you with that also.  Check this out to help you find your website idea.

NOTE: If you decide to give your free website to a friend or family member, your affiliate code is already embeded into the site. You make money, they make money. It’s a win-win situation.

BUT

If you wish to keep the free site for yourself (which many SBI’ers do) then you have up to 9 months to create that website. This will give you plenty of time to start your first website, get it up and running and then begin another website.

So don’t miss out on this open window of opportunity.

Take me to Site Build It! Buy 1 Get One Free Special.

XsitePro (US$197.00 one time fee)

If you know what your website theme will be and have done keyword research for it, but have never created a website or have one and are looking for a new website builder, you may want to take a look at this program. Here are just a few things about Xsite Pro:

• Xsite Pro sits on your computer and work on your site whenever you want.

• Create page quickly and easily

• Add Google Adsense easily

• Keep all affiliate links within the wizard to use across any web sites you create with Xsitepro

• Create Sitemap and submit to Google

• Create pop-ups, pop-overs and pop-unders

• Creates Robots.txt file (to let them spiders follow, index or disallow any page you choose)

• Easily create redirect pages to help hide unattractive urls or disguise affiliate links (many call cloaking or redirect)

• One click publishing to your web hosting plan

These are just a few of the benefits of this program, for more information see the Xsitepro review.

Wordpress (software free)

This is free blogging software. You can create a free blog using wordpress software or buy a web hosting plan and register a domain name and install onto your domain.

Wordpress.com (free)

You can create your own blog and use wordpress.com to host it (called 3rd party hosting). Your blogs name would be nameofyourblog.wordpress.com

There are many themes you can choose from when you set up an account, but you can not use plugins (Google Adsense, SEO Pack etc) with this free hosting.

If you use wordpress.com to create a blog, you can not use any affiliate links, google adsense or any other methods to make money online.

The search engines love wordpress (free) blogs and many times will index quickly, but just as quickly if they feel you are spamming they will shut your blog down.

If you are looking to get into affiliate marketing or any of the other ways to make money online, the free wordpress. com is not for you.

Wordpress.org (needs web hosting)

This is the same software that the .com has but you need to purchase web hosting. Many of the web hosting companies now have a quick installation of blogging scripts.

If you are looking to get into affiliate marketing and don’t want to take the time to create a website, this software is very easy to use. This blog is hosted at GoDaddy and a basic package of web hosting and a domain name can be found for about $50 a year.

By using your own web hosting, you have complete control of the look of your blog. There are hundreds of plugins that you can upload to your hosting and some of the plugins available for you to use are for templates to change the look and layout of your blog, Google Adsense, Google Sitemap, make your blog search engine optimized and much more.

If you are on a tight budget, for around $50 a year you can get a domain name and web hosting to start your own online business at home.

Site Build It! ($299. a year)

This website builder is more than just a program to create a website. Sitesell, the company that owns this product have everything you need in this one package to help you build a website that works.

If you are a beginner and do not have the technical background for building a web site, SBI teaches you everything you need to know AND explains everything in simple language to help you learn.

Here are just a few things that are included for the price:

• Helps you find your website niche

• You domain registration

• Web hosting

• A keyword and marketing research tool (called Brainstorm It!)

• Step-by-step tutorial (called Site Build It action guide) written or  video to help you learn

• A forum to help you if you get stuck on any part

• A block-by-block web site page builder

• Analyzes each page you create for search engine optimization and tells you what is wrong so you can fix it

• Once a page has been created automatically tells the major search engines of your new page (or web site if you just created your home page

There is much more to Site Build It than meets the eye. There is not any other program on the internet that can even compare to what Site Build It! can do for you.

I am using this product and here is a Site Build It Review so you can see for yourself that Site Build It is not a scam and they really do back what they say; “Help you create a website that works.”

Whether I am using keywords to help me build content for my site, it seems that many times I need to search for information and when I am in the process of looking for certain info, my mouse just seems to take on a mind of its own and starts to click on certain links that looks interesting. Then it seems that I have “wasted” maybe up to an hour of my time looking at stuff not even related to what I started out looking for.

Call it anything you like, I call it “Getting off Task”. Here is a few things I try to do when I find myself doing that.

1. Take a break from the computer. I mean actually getting up and going into another room. Even if it is just for 5 minutes.

2. Close out of all the open windows that you have on the bottom of your task bar and only keep on the one that you were originally working on. I, at times, have 10 -15 different pages open in my task bar.

3. If I am really stuck on my content words that I want to write. Move to another topic.

4. Keep a to-do list near my computer on paper. If I see it on paper then I can do #3 and still keep working on the items that need to be taken care of.

5. At times nothing seems to work and my mind just seems to jump from one place to another and can’t keep a thought in my head. For this problem I shut the whole system down and take a nap!

So if you find yourself “Getting off task”, don’t feel bad as you are not the only one.

We, as a society, have our days filled with work, family, problems, laundry, bill paying and so much more that even taking that 20 minute power nap can rejuvenate and help get yourself back into what we wanted to do.

Even if you need to shut the computer off for the day, don’t worry the Internet will be there tomorrow. It may do good for you to take a break, smell the flowers and feel the sun on your face.

As Scarlett O’Hara said ” After all…tomorrow is another day.”

Easier said than done. But looking around the Internet enough at different forums you will see the same questions asked over and over again. Can you take those questions and create a website around them. Sometimes you may be able to, it just might take a lot of thought and seeking more information on the answers unless you are already able to answer the questions because you may have expert knowledge to be able to answer the questions that people have.

If you want to have an ecommerce website, take a look at eBay, Yahoo and Amazon and see what the hot sellers are. The only problem I see with trying to sell a hot seller is that many, many other people are also. Can you take a few of the hot sellers and see if they are continuous sellers? You don’t want to create a website or ecommerce store with ONLY the latest hot sellers as you will have to keep changing all the time and trying to keep up with the market. This can be very time consuming.

When you build your website, you definitely want to be able to add to it on a constant basis but I don’t think you want to have to update it every single day.. Heck, you can do that with a blog.

So then your thoughts may wander and you may need to decide if you want to actually create a site or just a blog to start out. You can make money using either one as there are many people that are doing that (making money blogging that is).

Even if you decide you want to blog to make money, you will still need to get traffic to your blog. The search engines do like them as they are updated (usually) very often, but you still have to put time into it.

If you think you can throw up a blog or website and make money right away, think again. Yes, you may be able to make a couple of dollars here and there, but if you really want to generate income on a regular basis you need to treat your website creation or blog as a business. Not necessarily a J.O.B, because if you enjoy working on your site or blog then it is not really work.

HEY!! That is not such a bad thing. “And many a failure turns about, when he might have won had he stuck it out” That is from a poem that I like and it is very true. People, no matter what they are doing, will many times fail in their first attempt, and maybe even a few more times after that as well. That is ok. But Don’t Give Up.

If you are building a website, take your time with it. Research for the keywords, work on the design, see it from your visitors perspective. Don’t build the website for you, make it for your audience. Talk to them and not at them. Get out of the Me, Me, Me syndrome. I personally don’t care that you made 1 million dollars using the techniques on your site, can I do that also? Can you guarantee that I can? Your visitors are into the their own Me, Me, Me.

Think of your website as a store. No matter what type of a site you have. The first thing when you walk into a store (well, except Wal-Mart, grocery stores and the like), you may be greeted by a salesperson asking “Can I help YOU?” The contents of your pages will be the help they are looking for (hopefully). The navigational menus will be the “other departments” that they may go look for specific information (or product or service) that THEY want. Give you visitors what they want.

When people are creating a new website, they fail because they THINK they know what a person is looking for. Many people may be looking for how to lose weight, how to get rid of acne, how to……the ideas are endless. By building a website on a “How to” you can help to give the people what they want. Answer a question, Solve a Problem, that is the way to make a website work for you and be able to make money online.

My newest website is not only a how to but also helps to answer questions and solve some problems that many people have in creating a website. This website creation tutorial is just that. A guide, a help.

I built my tutorial of creating a website because I saw a need for beginners to have help with how to even start the process. Sure anyone can register a domain, download bluevoda (or any web design software) and build one, but what else was there needed?

If you create a website to help people solve a problem or answer a question….sooner or later the money will follow but it will not happen overnight, heck maybe not even in 6 to 8 months or even a year or two.

But stick with it and try different ways, sooner or later you will succeed. But you can’t quit.

Creating a website is not difficult as there are many, many programs online that will help you create that website within 30 minutes. Sometimes it takes longer for the web hosting company to set up your account then to actually build your site.

Here are some things to think about if the ONLY reason you want to create the website is to make money.

1. It will not happen overnight – there are many places you can “buy” a premade website and have it up and running within a couple of hours. Just remember you are not the only one that is doing this and most of the time the content within that website you are paying for is duplicated over and over again…for you, then next person, the next person, etc…. Many times you are not able to change much of the content of the pages, yes maybe some of the keywords but if you are not using those keywords within the body of content then all that work still will not help you.

2. Keep with a theme – If you are going to sell dogs collars don’t have another page to sell jewelry also. I have seen many of these “mini-malls” that you can purchase and the companies will stock them……Yes, but how many people actually do a keyword search for “online shopping” or “mini mall”. If people are looking to buy they will put in what they are wanting to purchase (or get more information on). I want to buy a 14k gold plated bird necklace. So when you are creating your website to make money online, think about what you will be selling. Whether it will be a product or a service. Whatever it is, on the description page try to think of how someone may type in that to find YOUR product.

3. Taking the next hot product – If you decide you want to promote the next hot product online think if you really do want to as many, many other people could be promoting it also, and some of the promoters have been doing it for years…..Can you compete? If you believe that you can..Go for it! But the amount of money you make may be short lived. Yes, the money may be good for 3-6 months, if you are lucky, but what will you do then? Find the next hotest product to promote……..

4. Do research on what you are interested in – Is there a market for it? You may find that the knowledge you have does not have much competition for. I have seen informational websites on horses, wolves and many other different animals……I bet even though there is not alot of searching for what they have, the visitors they are getting are extremely targeted to them and in that respects can help them generate income online.

5. Scams – If it sounds to good to be true….it probably is….If you are thinking about paying for information from a person to help you make money online in 3 days…yea, yea, lots and lots of money……take a look real close at the sales page….and if you will notice at the bottom of these sales pages it says a disclaimer of “results are not typical”. Keep your wallet in your pocket as I bet the information they are selling is out there free on the internet. You just need to do a little bit more research.

6. Eggs in one basket – Look for different ways for making money on your website….diversify….find different programs. Doing research for this venture can go a long ways for reaching your goal.

If you create a website that has good content, updated frequently and keep building on that, you should not have problems making money online, true you won’t be able to retire anytime soon or make money overnight,,,,but don’t give up. Sometimes just when you think that it is not working…..BAM…there it is and you have found yourself in the search indexes of the engines.

I took the Profitable Website Building 101 and also Link Building. Both of these classes have paid back 10-fold for creating a web site online.

There are many other classes they offer and more to come. Take a look at their schedule. The nice thing is that the courses are online, you don’t have to download anything and they are open 24/7. If you do run into a problem they have a members only forum that has alot of great information to help you through a trouble spot.

They also offer a free newsletter with great tips and tricks to help you. Even if you don’t want to start any of their classes right not you can sign up for the newsletter and keep up to date on the latest trends online.

Take a look at the listing of current online classes to learn about Internet Marketing.