If you’ve got a strong vision of what you want to achieve, and eagerness to learn, and a healthy dose of patience, then building a beautiful, functional, fully-customisable and user-friendly website is well within your grasp.

Website design has traditionally been a time-consuming and expensive exercise, with high-end sites costing tens of thousands of dollars and taking months to deliver. But for the vast majority of businesses and people, a simple, elegant and functional website that satisfies all of their needs can be put together for a fraction of the time and cost.  We can get you up and running in less than a week for under $2000 if you’d like.  Or, if you’re willing to put in the hard yards and hours required, you can build a beautiful site yourself.

Here’s a  layperson’s guide that runs through the process step by step – including all the information I wish I had known when I was starting out.

In part 1 of this series, before we even get started with the design process, we set up all the infrastructure we’ll need to host our website: we choose and register a domain name, find a good web host, and make sure that our domain and host are communicating properly with each other.

Continue reading Building Your Own Website – Part 1: Infrastructure →