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For any new business a web site is a vital aspect of marketing that can not be avoided. More and more business start ups are purely based on Internet trade. If you have considered starting an online business of your own you may already have discovered how expensive it can be to have a web site built and designed by a professional. The cost may have caused a rethink on whether or not you should actually start your own business and this article attempts to help you in this decision by looking at cheaper options focusing on low cost, or free, web design tools and free web templates.

One of the main reasons why professional web design is so expensive is that a professional web site really is expensive to create. Not only do you have to cover the wages of the highly trained designer but the company has other costs such as office expenses. Even if the web designer works from home he will be using software and hardware, such as Dreamweaver, Photoshop, graphics tablets and the likes, that is really rather expensive. However there are many cheaper, and some free, alternatives which can be used to create even the most complex websites and some companies even give away complete web designs for free (usually advertised as free web templates).

To find these cheaper options all you really need to do is to search for freeware web design software, shareware web design software and, maybe, freeware or shareware photo editing software. You will quickly discover the massive range of such tools available to choose from.

Now upon downloading your first web design software you will see that many have WYSIWYG interfaces with drawing tools making it possible to simply draw your web site. However you will need to learn a little about the programming languages used in web design, HTML & CSS, even a basic knowledge of HTML and CSS will help greatly.

If building a web site from scratch using HTML and CSS is a little daunting then you can search the Internet for free web site templates or free css templates. You will be amazed at the quality of some of these designs which can be easily tweaked to perfectly match your web design requirements.

If even this method is a little too complicated for you there is another alternative which is one of the most popular ways in which to build a web site - blogs. A blog (weblog) can be on any subject at all and is incredibly easy to create, so easy that there are literally millions of them on the Internet.

You will be extremely pleased to hear that blogs are commonly free! Not all blogs are free but most, including the popular Wordpress, have a basic account which is 100% free to use. Such accounts are, more often than not, as simple to use as 1, 2, 3,. You click the write button, write your text and then press the publish button and you immediately have a web page added to your site.

After a while the whole blogging experience will become second nature and you will be ready to try something a little more adventerous. You can try changing the design, which is really easy, but to radically change your blog's appearance you may discover that you will be required to pay a small fee but it is well worth it if your site is doing well.

Remember building your first web site can be as easy as searching for freeware, shareware, free web templates etc. so what is stopping you, why don't you get started on a site today?
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