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A while ago building attractive, functional and successful website for personal or business need was expensive and took a long time before it was up and running. Today, if you needed a brochure type informational website that is easy to use and attractive you could set it up yourself in only couple of days and fairly inexpensive.

Assuming you planed the structure (how many pages, links structure etc), wrote the content you want to publish and thought of a domain name there are only couple of steps you need to take to create the website.

  • Register your domain name
  • Find a web host
  • Get web template

Registering Domain name

There are hundreds of companies that offer domain name registration and I encourage you to do some research on which one would be best for you. As you do the research look at the services those registrars are offering besides basic domain registration. The one registrar I found very affordable and packed with features is registerfly.com.

For only $9.99 a year for new registration and $7.99 domain name transfer you don't only get your name registered but also a 10mb web space to host your site, one pop email, spam control tool and much more. You really need to visit registerfly.com to see all the features they offer with domain registration. I use it to register my domain names including bewebmaster.com.

Total cost of this step: $9.99 a year

Get a Web Host

PowWeb.comThere is a good chance that your website will need more than 10mb of space and more than one email. You may also want to expand your website in the future and add dynamic content or maybe a database support. Features like PHP, MySQL, ASP, FrontPage extensions, subdomains etc, have become almost a must for a successful website. And as I said earlier, you may not need these features now, but if need arises for some of these features, planning ahead and getting a host that has it all would save you time and money.

One host that I would recommend is Powweb.comPowweb. Offering 1000Mb of space, 5gb traffic a day (not month as other companies), PHP, CGI, MySQL, FREE 1 year domain name, first two months for free and many more features at only $93.24 a year makes Powweb.comPowweb very affordable. As you can see they offer free new domain registration for one year which is great but the renewal with Powweb costs $15.0. So after one year I would transfer the domain name to registryfly.com and pay only $7.99 for the transfer year and only $9.99 to renew it every year.

Total cost of this step: $93.24 a year or $7.77 a month.

Get Web Template

If you, like many of us, are not enough html literate and creative to come up with elegant and good web design using website templates is the best solution. Website templates are pre-made web design products that can be easily customized to reflect your company's branding. Website templates are available in Photoshop and HTML format. Take a look at some of our high quality, elegant and affordable templates below.

Templates are compatible with FrontPage, DreamWeaver, GoLive, and other software. If you don't have access to any of this software, click on details and select option to customize your template. All you have to do from there is follow the instruction to successful customization. After customized and downloaded, all you have to do is to incorporate your content into it.

Keep in mind that if you buy now you'll save 15% on all templates.

Total cost of this step: $40 - $90.00 one time payment. (Prices after %15 discount)

Summary

As you can see having an elegant and functional website can be very affordable. The cost for the first year which includes Domain name registration, web hosting and web template would be around $150.00 depending on the template you choose. The years after that the cost would never go over $114.00 a year, which is $9.50 a month.

Do you think that's a lot? Well if you calculate how much you spend for a lunch or a coffee every day and than multiply that amount by number of days in a month, you'll see that $9.50 a month is really not much. Especially, if you think that the extras your business gains by having a website is much better than the extras around your waist.