The design of your website will have a direct impact on whether your online internet business succeeds or fails.

Getting it right can mean more profit, but get it wrong and you could be left wondering why you even started it in the first place.

With the advent of the latest breed of easy-to-use web site builders which have been designed with internet marketers and more importantly totally non-technical users in mind, the task of quickly building professional looking websites has been made a lot easier.

The developers of this type of software often provide you with the tools to build your website and usually prvide manuals which clearly outline the steps you must take to ensure you do get it right.

However what they don't tell you is how to make money from your website and more importantly how to build it to ensure it is optimized to create profits and an income for the site owner.

When a visitor lands on a page on your website either from a search engine link or via a pay-per-click ad you need to be sure that the page they visit is optimized to do the job that you want it to do, whether you want the visitor to join your opt-in email list, buy your product, join your membership site, download a free report or whatever.

Page design is critical in this situation and you should make sure that you research how to get the visitor to take the right action before you design each page.

Every web page has a different function and needs to be built accordingly to have the desired effect and of course to create your online income.

1. First decide why you really need to build a website - think about this long and hard before comitting!

2. Determine the individual functions that will be provided by your website and what you might need to add in the future

3. Design web pages for each function and document your final website design from these pages so that you will always know where you are during development
4. Get yourself a web hosting account with a good but cheap web host company (such as Hostgator)
5. Choose and obtain a Domain name for your new website and change the nameservers to point to your new hosting account
6. Install Wordpress (for Free!) directly from within your web hosting account (easily done using cPanel) and select a theme and plugins to ensure your site looks and performs the way you want

7. Create your website using Wordpress with pages, posts, links, ads, videos and anything else you want quickly and easily (no technical knowledge or programming is required when using Wordpress)

And there you have it, a working website that you can use to make money online.

Of course the you will need to add more content and promote your site by getting quality back links from article marketing, directories, social networking, forum and blog comments etc, but you will have a good base to start because a Wordpress website is easy to promote though its' RSS feeds and easy to change for any functionality you might require in the future.

Whether you want to be a blogger, pay-per-click specialist, affiliate marketer or run an ecommerce store you will be able to do all these things with Wordpress software

Visit the Affiliate Blogging with Wordpress website to see an example of what you can build easily and quickly with Wordpress software.

But remember that you are not restricted to blogging or affiliate marketing when using Wordpress to build your website.

Wordpress will help you build a website for any purpose you want.

Wordpress is Free!

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