Is there a cheap way for me to set up a website?

I'm setting up a business and need to have a website up and running urgently but budget is limited and I can't afford to pay web design companies lots of money. I've heard that there are ways of doing this yourself, but what are they? Can anyone recommend a good site for making your own website (by the way I know about having to have a domain name... mine will be a .ie one if that makes any difference and also know about having to have a web hosting company - just have problems with the design) and maybe what's been your experience of them? Advice greatly appreciated.

Hello,

You can use a thing called Content Mangager System(CMS) for your site. Most CMS's use Mysql and PHP so your web host will have to support PHP and Mysql before you can use one.

My site http://chaoticpulse.com uses Joomla a free CMS. There are other such as phpNuke, Droopla, Mambo, etc each with it's own layout. You can even download themes to change the layouts for popular ones like phpNuke and Joomla.

A content mangager is a great solution to your problem because you don't need to know how to build websites in order to use it and updating is a snap too. Best part is there are free CMS's so you don't have to speed thousands to some web developer build you one.

I use http://hostmonster.com which is about $5.00 a month and offers a free domain name. It also uses Cpanel which comes with a thing called favico that has alot of common CMS's already installed(you just select which one you want).

piczo.com

Well, Yahoooo! :-)
http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/

Microsoft is offering a free domain and hosting for life with templates in certain countries

w w w . f r e e w e b s . c o m
or
www.piczo.com
theyre both website which allow you to create your own page for free.

btw i put the top one with spaces inbetween cos when i cliced submit it showed that address as this:
www.xxxxxxxxxxxx

I highly recommend Joomla CMS.

http://www.joomla.org

Sameh
Give Joomla a Pulse
http://www.josxp.com

Host it yourself.

I host numerous sites right now.

It costs nothing as long as you own your domain and already have a decent high-speed connection.

As far as designing it goes, just use a premade CMS. Either Joomla or aspNuke depending on the platform you're running. They have easy to understand interfaces, and everyhitng can be done online without really having to change any code.

let me know what you're looking to do and maybe I can give you a deal.

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