You want to create a website? Great, start with a good education on several of your available options. Please start here!

There are many options but there are three fundamentals to getting yourself to your website or blog goal shortly.

You'll need:

1. A domain name. This may sound scary because it has a referral to the dark mysterious world of domains but it really isn't that big of a deal.

A domain name is simply a registration for a year long period of a web address. The domain is what people will visit when they go to your website. More on domains with how do I choose a good domain name?

2. Web hosting. The web host is where your website or blog is housed. It is also a connection between an individual or individual company and the World Wide Web readers. There are free web hosting companies but I don't recommend them. See why here.

3. You'll also need a program to design your webpage unless you are able to do it all by hand from notepad. This isn't really practical.

There are some great editors, one familiar one is Dreamweaver from adobe; however, I must note that dreamweaver is what professional designers have used and trained on for their four year college degree.

If you're like me and like shortcuts that still get the job done Speedy-Joe's website tonight product features a drag and drop editor which greatly speeds up completion time for your website.

At Speedy-Joe's you can also register a domain and purchase web hosting.  Besides drag and drop, artiseer is a good time saving and "theme" producing design software as well. See here for a quick video of artiseer.