If you are the type of person who is wondering how to create a web page, chances are that you are not all that Internet savvy. That doesn’t mean you can’t learn though, and there are tools available that can make it fairly easy.

Really, creating a web page can be easy or difficult, depending on how ambitious you are and what you want to include. A basic web page, one without a bunch of complicated scripts and things, can be very easy. A more elaborate web page, with lots of “bells and whistles”, can take a little more time.

You can download a free HTML editor, such as Kompozer, and begin creating basic web pages in no time at all. You can shorten the learning curve a bunch by watching a training video on how to use Kompozer to create basic web pages. Kompozer is a very good WYSIWYG HTML editor. In case you are wondering, WYSIWYG stands for “what you see is what you get”, and it basically means you do not have to know HTML in order to create a pretty decent web page.

If you are only wanting to create your own blog, then there is absolutely nothing to it. All you really have to do is to register with one of the many services set up to make blogging easy, such as Blogger.com. They will tell you step by step how to create a web page, but believe me, it is easy to do on one of these sites. The layout is already set up for you, the page is basic and functional, and no programming knowledge is required.

If you are serious about blogging, especially if you want to get in it to use in your business, and to make money, then I recommend that you use WordPress. WordPress is free to download, and it offers you a lot more flexibility and features than Blogger. There are tons of plugins and templates available for WordPress, so you can have a really professional looking blog at almost zero cost.

Again, if you know very little about using WordPress, you can really shorten the learning curve by watching some training videos. One such video teaches you step-by-step how to build a WordPress blog that auto-updates using RSS

One way to make money with a blog is to have your own membership site. If you have a passion about some certain subject, then chances are that a lot of other people share that passion. Create a membership site and make some money while sharing your passion. Same goes if you have expertise in a subject, then you can charge other people (members) for that expertise.

You can build a membership site using WordPress and a Paypal plugin for a total cost of around $50 plus whatever you pay for a domain name and web hosting.

If you want a truly professional membership site with one of the best content management systems available, then you definitely would want to consider Joomla. Joomla is a content management system that will do just about anything you could want in managing a membership site.

Joomla is free to download, and there are numerous sources of templates to make your site look and feel exactly as you want it to. I recommend a video that shows how to install and configure Joomla, and another video shows how to build a membership site using Joomla.

If you are after something more elaborate, then more effort and expense is required. You can register several domain names, for example, which will cost some money. That way, you can match keywords and domain names for better search engine optimization and more traffic to your web sites.

In order to create more eloborate and sophisticated web sites, with even more “bells and whistles” you will want to learn some basic HTML. A shortcut, if you can afford it, is to invest in one of the professional HTML editors, such as Macromedia Dreamweaver. You also can use programs such as Macromedia Fireworks to create your own graphics.

Of course, once you learn how to create a website, there is still the question of what to do with it. The Internet has so much junk already, just there to look cute and take up space, so it would be a shame to just add more to the trash.

Create a web site or blog that provides some real quality content or products, make it look good and be easy to navigate, provide quality customer service when needed, and you will get the traffic. It’s only a matter of time.

Give it a try.

Lewis Poteet