There are three basic steps in setting up a website, and to help make you more aware of what’s to come if you’re a complete newbie.

Firstly you will need to purchase a domain name. This should ideally be relevant in terms of key worse. For instance if you was selling cakes and your name was Paul Morison, and you were targeting your products specifically to a UK audience, a good domain name would be paulmorisoncakes.co.uk.

The next step would be to chose a web host and set up an account. This is of course an important step, and it’s probably not the most interesting. There are many providers out there and it’s important to do your homework on each one. Things to consider include the amount of web space you’re allowed, file types, and disk space. A good provider will have technical support available when it’s needed.

The next step is designing a website and you can either have it created for you by a designer, or do it yourself with WYSIWYG web editors. There are free version available and perhaps more professional paid pieces of software, but once your site is designed you can test it, add details, such as a payment method, and begin working on your website to get it noticed.

Once the process is broken down into stages it makes it seem a lot easier, so good luck!