There are various and sundry challenges to making your own website. These challenges vary based on what you want to do with the site and how much of the work you intend on doing yourself. While the issue of where to host your site and how to register you domain do need to be addressed, those are actually fairly straight forward when compared with actually designing the site and coming up with content. While the specifics of your layout and content are going to be unique to your site, the principals behind good design and good writing can be, (to a certain degree, at any rate,) quantified.

While I do not claim to be an expert on either the subject of design or writing, I do have a rather excellent source for hints tips and tricks for all things related to web design. In fact, I have recently added a link for this invaluable resource to this site. I am referring, of course, to A List Apart. If you haven’t ever been to this site or heard of it before, it’s full of great articles on keeping your content, code, layout, and other such web-related wonderment in tip-top shape.