Do It Yourself: Website Design, Blogging and Hosting... Anyone?

Phil, I have and created my own website. Ofcourse I am not a realtor. I'm an appraiser. And my site is fairly simple and maybe not very professional. It serves its purpose for me and I've enjoyed creating it, tweaking it, changing and playing around with it a bunch over the 5 years that I've had it. Now and again I think about turning it over to a professional but just can't give it up.

Anyways, it cost me very little in money. Check out homestead and good luck.

I've done my own since 1995.  Host my own and own everything.  Wouldn't have it any other way.

Phil, one way to approach is to have a professional design your website and then you maintain and update it yourself. This is the way we do it; our site was created by a professional and has been maintained since then by my wife, who is our company's media manager. The program she uses to update is Adobe Contribute CS3, although she says that she is thinking about switching to Adobe Dreamweaver which has some new and attractive features.

Whatever you decide to do - and remember that there is a lot more to a website that what a viewer is looking at online - check the rating of your site out on www.hubspot.com . Hubspot will analyze website elements  that you've never even heard of! This is a very valuable tip that I picked up from Active Fain.

Get a Frontpage, Windows Expression, Dreamweaver software...add your blogs, do video module. You can do it..

Phil, thanks for that question as well.  I enjoyed the answers.  Have a great day.

I would suggest in building your site with wordpress or joomla

I just visited your website and it looks good!  Did you end up doing it yourself or did you have it done professionally?  I did my own and found it fairly simple to do.  I used 1and1.com and found it very simple to do.  Although, like Gynell, I am not a RE Agent therefore my site is very simple.