If you've never built a website before it can seem scary or complicated, but it isn't.  You have a couple of options when you build a website:  you can build it yourself or you can pay someone to build it for you. 

It's going to be a LOT cheaper for you to build a website yourself.  It's not nearly as hard as it sounds.

Here are the basic steps to build a website and the places I recommend to get what you need:

1.  Domain Name -  a domain name is your website address.  For example, the domain name of this site is work-at-home.us.  You can choose any available domain you want for your website. 

There are a lot of domain name companies.  I have over 100 domain names and I buy them from Act Now Domains.  They are cheap (only $12.75/year), easy to use and have really great service.  I tried a cheapie cheap place when I first started out and there were WAY too many hassles to deal with so it's usually better if you go with a company that you know is good and reliable for this stuff. 

3.  Build a Website Software - this is a program that a web host has for you to use where you can choose the website design you want, insert your text and voila! you have a website.  These are really easy to use and if you found this web page and can send email then you have enough skill to build one.

The best, easiest and cheapest website builders I recommend are:

Act Now Domains.  They have one of the best website builders around, hands down.   It's easy to use and cheap - only $8.95/month for a 5 page website, email and hosting.  They have great service so if you ever need help you can call them 24 hours a day or email them.  If you just want a one page website you can get one for $14.95/year.  They are really helpful and don't give attitude.

Ipowerweb.  Also really easy to use.  They have it set up so you can easily accept credit cards via Pay Pal or a third party gateway (these are separate companies,) and they have 24 hour service also.  They also have tutorials that walk you through every aspect of putting up your site that are really helpful.

3.  Web Host - this is a company that will store the website you build on their servers so that when someone types in your domain name your website will come up. 

If you already have a website builder, I would go ahead and use Act Now Domains for hosting as well.  They are really reliable, have 24/7 phone and email service, and are cheap ($8.95/month.)

4.  Accepting Credit Cards on your Website - if you want to accept credit cards on your website you will need to set up an account with a third party gateway.  This is a service that will take the credit card information from your customer and process it for you.  PayPal is free to set up, but it requires your customers to have a Pay Pal account (ebay owns Pay Pal - it's a very popular, legitimate company.)  2checkout costs $49, but it doesn't require people to have an account with them so you will probably get more sales using them. 

If you are just starting out and money is tight, I would set up a Pay Pal account and then once you make $49 from your sales I would go with 2checkout. 

You can also get your own merchant account, but unless you really know what you are doing, I don't suggest it.  It's complicated and can be expensive.

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