If you want to start work from home, then it is potential that you will need some kind of site. But you might want to stay away from the high costs of a professional designer. Can you still get a website?

Yes, you might get yourself a website for your own working from home scheme. There are a lot of DIY site tools, but I do not really rate ample of these. For those wanting to get an internet presence quickly and simply, then blogging is the answer?

Not convinced? Well, the best site tools have everything that you need, including:

• straightforward to update via content management systems
• professional templates for the design of your website, free to download and straightforward to activate
• loads of added features to include, via plugins, for stacks of extra functions

But isn’t a weblog merely for blogging?
But, surely a website merely means that you might then merely keep blogging around your products? Well actually no, with the best blogging software you could add a range of pages to your web site, with a hierarchy of pages if you want to add a lot. Then, you could add weblog posts on top of these, which is another extraordinary benefit.

What is the best blogging software?
So, which is the best blogging software to use? Which should you be using? Well, my recommendation is WordPress. If you are slightly technical, then you will be able to sort yourself a domain name and suitable PHP hosting with a MySQL database and upload the latest version of WordPress.

Does all of that sound foreign to you? Do not worry – only look around for a host that offers straightforward WordPress installation. You might pay a touch more, but with a press of a button or two, the entire site will be created for you in WordPress.

Customise WordPress
Then, start working on your website! Select a suitable theme that matches what you want to sell and has a good navigation structure.

If you are promoting merely a small handful of products then you just need to create a page for each and link to every page from the main navigation area. This should happen automatically if you are careful selecting your theme. If you need ample of pages, then create high level category pages and then create the product pages as sub pages for these. Again, with a decent theme, all of this will be managed for you, or you could only talk round the products in the category pages and link to them manually.

WordPress is the best
WordPress is wonderful for quickly and easily building your own website. I do not know of an simpler to use tool available on the market, it beats all of the DIY site tools that I have ever tried. Plus, because it is a blogging tool, it has all of the indispensable weblog tools built in, which means that you site can also include a website. This is essential for the ultimate success of your site.

So, find yourself a domain name, buy some hosting, activate WordPress and customise it and you have your own simple to build web site!

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