Are you Considering having your own web site? 
You have many options.

Build it yourself (saves lots of money):

  1. Use your own ISP personal web space and the provided authoring tools.
    • Most ISPs (Internet Service Provider) offer you 10 MB personal web space.  That is enough for a few pages and several pictures.
    • Web page authoring  tools are very good.  If you can use Microsoft Word or similar software to make pages with boxes and images, you already know how to use the tools.
    • Using your personal web space means you do not have to buy a Domain name for an anual fee. 
  2. Buy web space from the countless number of hosting providers and publish your web page to them.  Important: If you want a hosting provider with live tech support that you can call, it costs quite a bit more.
    • Build your web pages yourself with tools of your choosing and put them on your new web site by using procedures you receive in your "welcome package" email.
    • See next section..

Get professional help for part or all of it

  1. Contract the Web page build. Skills available
    • Creative page design
    • Web page build
    • Image editing and croping
    • Graphics background or mood design
    • Publishing to the hosted domain
  2. Contract a complete package (very costly)..
    • Provide the hosting on my server or put it on a comercial hosting server for a monthly or anual charge.
    • Buy the domain name (has to be renewed anually).
    • Create the web pages and put them on the hosting server.
    • manage updates and changes

Search engines are not free any more

Search engines can be very pricey.  It used to be they would find you within 6 months, but that expectation is not realistic any more.  The Big Search engine companies bought up the good smaller ones and are now controlling the market as they compete with each other.

    • If your web site has any business flavor, they will not allow you into databases like Yahoo and Google.  You have to pay dearly to be included in them and other big ones.. 
    • If your web is strictly personal and educational, etc., then you have a good chance of eventually getting in.
    • Special content is required in each web page to optimize how people find your page.  The content is not required for the web to function.