All marketers want you to sign-up for a seminar or a promotion. Your email inboxes are straining to hold all correspondence telling you that unless you buy this or that system or utility, you'll be left hopelessly behind; heck, you've lost race before it even started!

All above, of course, while you are just fumbling around doing your best to understand basics and snag onto a set of guiding principles. It's enough to make perfectly sane Newbies fling their arms, pull their hair and throw their computer out window! However, is there an antidote, a way to minimize or stop it? Read on and I will show you how to spell relief from your information congestion.

The strongest defense against information overload is a special kind of knowledge. What I'm talking about is type of knowledge that comes from a deep investigation of sound business principles. As you spend weeks and months contemplating setting up your Net business, ask yourself what are basics of business. It doesn't matter if it's a brick and mortar or Net business.

Grab a pen and paper and make a point by point outline of what you consider to be essential business principles. Double check above list against established sources; there might be an item you left out. The list has now become YOUR list; not a list somebody else handed you. Take a look at this article and see if it helps: http://www.newbie-business-guide.com/tested_business_principles.htm

A few years ago I started designing and creating websites myself. I started just to show off to others, but I noticed it wasn’t as easy I thought it was. I mean, it is easy to get a site online; you just buy a template, pay a coder, and pay some one to insert content and advertise for you then you’re done. But if you want to do things yourself, that’s where it gets tricky.

After a few sites, I managed to find a certain pattern in process of creating and managing my websites.

1. I always start with an idea for subject and content. Believe me - never create a website about something you hate and know nothing about. Instead create a website about something you know a lot about and like to tell other people about. What also works is writing about a subject you would like to know more on, after doing your own research. Newbies can explain information to other newbies easier then pro´s explaining information to newbies.

2. Then I think of a design to go with it, to reflect its idea. Like if your subject is Boats, then don’t go with a flaming red design. Sure it could do it, but I would prefer for a blue, water-like design to reflect its subject.

3. If design is done, you need to get it coded. Some create their designs while they code, but I prefer to use a graphical program to first create whole design, just way I want it to be. Then I slice it all (contact me if you want to read an article about that) and save it for web. I usually have a small group of coders I trust to code my designs and they send it back to me when it’s coded.