Plus, you need to have a clear idea of ALL costs that are part of getting a web site, not just cost for a web designer. You'll find guidelines and price ranges in this article for all services that you, as a new web owner, will need.

These guidelines for costs are based on assumption that you're a small business owner or a sole proprietor on a budget.

Here's a run-down of cost for basics you'll need:

1. How much will it cost to register your domain name?

You'll need to register a domain name at any of many domain services on web. Prices range from $12.95/yr - $35/yr for same service. See http://www.secure domains.com and http://www.000domains.com for $12.95/yr. Another low-cost registrar is godaddy.com.

2. How much will it cost to design your site?

Prices range all over place: for a 4-page site, I've been quoted from $400 to $5000 for same features!

Web designers either charge by 1) hour or 2) page. Some charge by project. Make sure you understand designer's pricing structure.

Reasonable per page charges are $85-150 per page for a good designer. Project quotes vary depending on complexity of design and layout.

Assuming a 5-page site, consider a $450-600 price range for a site with basic design elements. For special forms and other features, price will increase.

The key is to get a good web designer because you can pay same amount of money for someone who is mediocre. Just because person is an expert in html doesn’t mean they really know what they’re doing.

They may know html, but that’s only part of what a good designer knows.

You have two other options to consider if you don't want to hire a designer to start from scratch:

One option is to get a ready-made web site template. Choosing a ready-made template for your web site has some advantages:

1) Prices tend to be less when you choose among ready-made templates.

2) Ready made templates allow you to get your web site online quickly, often in as little as 24 hours.

For an excellent discount on professional web site templates, see Private Practice Marketing http://www.private-practice-marketing.com emplates.html. Ordering a ready-made template means that you are choosing a web site design from among a selection of pre-made designs.

At Private Practice Marketing, http://www.private-practice-marketing.com emplates.html, you get license to your design when you purchase template which means that no one else will have same web site design that you do. Not all sites give you license when you purchase template so make sure you ask.

Another option is to get only really good tool that does it all for you. No html needed. Beware of any fake imitations. Sitebuildit! really does all research, including right key words for your site plus other tedious steps that take excessive time when you do them manually. See it here: http://www.private-practice-marketing.com/marketing.htm.

The other design cost is frequent updates to your site to keep it fresh and interesting to your visitors.

When people visit your site again in a month or so, they expect a business to offer new content, similar to way a store changes its display windows and rotates merchandise.

In cyber space out there, you might have heard about internet guru, one who make a million dollars from internet and so. Do you really think you need to be there – internet marketing expert who knows everything on internet – before you can make a fortune online?

That is so not true! In other way around, trying to become a guru will lead you to failure. Someone said “the internet guru is one who can tell people how to make money but cannot make it for himself.

I knew a lot of people who spent 2 or 3 months trying to write their own ebooks or online courses, finally end up with a few thousand visitors because they just did not know to marketing their products.

Have you ever notice that 2/3 of successful network marketers or home business entrepreneurs had a relatively low or standard education background – can you name any internet millionaire who graduated from college, studied e-commerce or marketing? Not easy to find one, right?

The first thing you should avoid is perfectionism, nobody can make something perfect. I, myself, was one who fall in this trap, got stuck for 2 months trying to collect free ebooks and reports as much as possible to make sure that I will not miss anything I need to learn.

After 2 months, I had realized that it’s impossible (at least for me) to learn everything just for start my own online business. I was exhausted and distracted. I started thinking I could not make it. Fortunately, I stopped wasting my time and begun to implement my project immediately - I did not care what else to learn.

You should study and implement your project at same time. Don’t waste your time to study everything, just scan for what you are interested in and then start working on it – you will know what you need to learn on way.