Designing Your Website

2. The Three Main Options

2.1 You can choose the do-it-yourself route to creating a website.

• If you use Word, you should find using software such as Microsoft FrontPage or Macromedia's Dreamweaver to create your own web pages, straightforward. You can even write in Word itself and then use the 'save as web page' command (available from Word 97 onwards).
• For about £400, you can buy pre-formatted software packages from companies such as Actinic, that give you an online catalogue site, with shopping basket and credit card transaction facilities. You just have to enter your product details.

2.2 You can appoint a web design agency to design and build an original site for you.

2.3 You can buy a fixed-price starter package, usually based on picking a layout style from a range of pre-designed templates.