So, you want to build a website! Well, you've come to the right place. This site explains in very simple terms how to design, build and publish a website. If you haven't done it before, Internet publishing can appear rather daunting. In fact, it is not difficult at all.

There is very little you require to build a website and everything you need is available free on the Internet. In other words, you don't need to spend huge sums of money purchasing expensive software packages, programming manuals or web server space. You just need to know where to start.

Here is a list of what you do need:

basic computer skills

access to a personal computer

access to the Internet

a free HTML Editor (a web page construction tool)

a place on the world wide web to publish your page

There are eight steps involved in publishing a page. They are:

define your objectives

design your web pages

download an HTML editor from the web

construct your site

find a web server where your site can be published

copy your pages to the web server

promote your website

track your hits and fine tune