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Caitlin, there's a few different ways to go about it. The first thing to ask yourself is what will the site contain? Is it just a place to blog? Put up some pics? Will there be loads of cool multimedia stuff? Flash, videos and the like? Secondly, who will be the host -- that is, are you going to set up and maintain your own Web server (and most likely the answer at this point should be no *smile*) or are you going to go to someplace like GoDaddy or other hosting service? Does your ISP (the people that hook you up to the Internet) offer free Web hosting space? The actual mechanics of making the site (the HTML pages, the JavaScripts, the CSS and such) are somewhat straightforward, but learning it all in one go would be daunting. Another factor is, of course, the monetary one ... how much are you willing to spend? I know, I know *smile* I threw a lot of questions at you and not a lot of answers. But the biggest part of any project of any size is proper planning. Trust me, I've been doing Web dev since before it was a super highway -- more like a footpath running from government agencies, the military and various educational institutions and national labs and the only "cool" thing was being able to link documents stored all over the place. You can always grow your dream, having to tear it apart and rebuild because of not asking questions first is a pain in the rumpus. If you have more questions, I'll gladly answer any you have.