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