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).