the goose

I get this question a lot.  ”How much should I pay for a website?”.  Of course everyone really just wants to hear an answer like “you can get it for free” – which isn’t the case and even if I am about to talk about a way to get one for very cheap – that doesn’t mean it isn’t worth shelling out a few bucks for some professional design.  It is true that you get what you pay for – but if you are running a sprint or just want to experiment, wordpress.com offers you an option that’ll get you 20% towards what you might consider to be a professional site.

1. Go to wordpress.com and sign up for a free account.  Wordpress is a free blogging system.  A blog is just a website that allows you to write a type of diary online.  I really like wordpress because you can also use it to create webpages without having to know anything about how the guts of a website actually work.
2. Once you have an account, select Settings (on the right hand side) and then Domains (in the middle).
3. Now you’ll have to whip out your credit card and pay $15 for your domain name.  
4. I just set up one this morning in about 15 minutes.  Of course you will have to learn how to use wordpress but there are plenty of tutorials out there on wordpress.com.