Advice needed on creating a simple website for a business

[Goose]

I've been the local IT-help-guy for friends and family for about 15 years now and i'm thinking of starting my own little one man band business doing the same thing for people that need someone.

I'm well aware that it's not gonna be a big money spinner but i'm currently unemployed and only able to work part-time for health reasons so i'm just trying to do something with my time and maybe earn some extra pocket money.

I've never tried making a website before so i'm looking for a way to create one easily and quickly from some template type thing and then get it hosted somewhere. I dont know anything about this aspect of IT so i dont really know where to go form here.

Any help would be most appreciated.

Thanks

 

[Goose]

Thanks.

TSOHost seem to pretty popular so i might give them and a whirl.

 

[Goose]

As everyone else has said really, worth getting yourself a Wordpress template and customising it as you want.

Once your comfortable with it, look in to some basic coding so you can sort out issues quickly and efficiently.

It's probably a bit over the top, but I've been looking in to Adobe Business Catalyst quite a lot recently. It's an all in one suite, so it's unfair to put it up against Wordpress.

Thanks for the advice, i've got a host setup with Wordpress now. Would you be able to point me in the direction of good, free resources for a complete Wordpress beginner? The default themes all seem to be aimed at blogs rather business websites and such.

Thanks again.

 

[Goose]

I've been messing around with Wordpress and to be honest I dont really like it. It seems far too fiddly given how simple a site I'm trying to make.

Are there any good alternatives to creating a simple but attractive site that has maybe 4 or 5 pages from a template using an offline editor of some sort? All the free web builder sites i've found aren't actually free and force you to use their hosting.