If you’re a new business owner who wants to offer products and services online, an individual who wants to set up a simple homepage or blog with interesting features and offerings for a small community of visitors, or even an experienced entrepreneur with no software coding skills, chances are you find the process of starting your own website overwhelming and confusing. With the multitude of choices available for designing, customizing, building, administering, and maintaining your website as well as the often incomprehensible technology buzzwords (html, php, ajax, CMS, open source, .css, Drupal, Joomla! Dreamweaver, and hundreds more!) available out there, the newbie website designer-developer often finds himself swimming in a very deep ocean indeed.

In this article we summarize some of the steps you can take to make your dream website a reality, even if you are hardly familiar with web technologies and you have never written a single line of code in your life.