By David Simon - Web Designer How Do I Start Making My Own Web Sites - Without Hiring A Web Designer!I assume you're reading this article because you're trying to figure out how to make a website, right? Well I'm a freelance web designer and, if you were to hire me, I would charge anywhere between $600 and $1500 to design a small to medium size web site. Plus $40 per hour for any changes or updates. And my rates are low because I work out of my home office. So it could get expensive, good for me, not so good for you. So what's the answer? Become your own web designer! It's not as hard as you might think. In fact there are really only 3 things you need to to create your own website.
Getting a domain name is easy and its cheap, less than $10 per year. I use Godaddy.com A lot of the hosting companies will give it to you for free when you use them to host your website.
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I started out with FrontPage then I used Dreamweaver and still do for some projects. The only problem with these programs is they are not easy to learn and can take a long time before you start publishing profesional looking websites. Plus there not cheap. What I've been using since 2004 is XSitePro and is really
easy to learn and easy to use. Plus they just came out with the
2nd version and its nothing short of amazing. I used XSitePro
V2 to create this website in less than a hour. You can get all
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A Domain Name
An Internet Service Provider to host
your website.
Software/html editor to make your
website.