Well, the following is a brief list of everything you need just to start, but remember, the most important thing that you will need is patience and desire to keep on going.

You need: (each link will take you to an explanation of each thing and how you can get it:

• (Browser) - Once you have an Internet connection, you will need a browser to see you pages. Probably you are thinking "duh"... but what I really want to tell you about browsers is that there are a lot of them which we can use to browse, that are not necessarily Internet Explorer which comes as a default browser when we purchase our computers (PC's).  In fact, I recommend you when creating pages, to have some of them installed on your machine, obviously, if you have capacity on your hard disk; in that way you can compare the way you see your pages, cause I assure you, there are differences between them.  My favorite is Moxilla "Firefox". In my personal opinion, is faster and more secure, and I like very much the way to browse with it, because of the tabs it has to open new windows in the same space; and even Internet Explorer version 7, has included those tabs as a new feature, I found some things I don't like on this new version, for instance, it is incapable to show pages that are protected by certain programs that encrypt their sources to avoid the stealing of them and their graphics, showing an error message when somebody enter on them. The other browsers like Netscape, Opera or Firefox, keep these pages protected but show them as it is supposed to be. On the other hand, once you installed it, if you uninstall it you will probably have a lot of troubles with dll's missing;  in my case, I had to format my computer back to its factory mode, just for that. I like Explorer 6 more than 7, but as I told you before, my favorite is Firefox and it has a lot of add-ons that makes your browsing time more efficient and amused.

• Hosting -It is the place where pages are hosted so the people who have access to Internet can see them. If you click the link you will see a little bit more of information related to this theme.

• Domain- They are the famous .com, .net, .org, .gov, .pr, .es, etc... The domain is the address  (URL) of your website. In the case of my website, my domain name is  secretexpressions.com. Remember that each page is linked to another one and this is what a website is. When you have a domain or a sub domain, all pages that are hosted in that domain are liaised. Domains can be purchased in different places and have different prices; some servers offers you the domain at the same time they offer you their "packages". Likewise, free servers offers you a sub domain. Sub domain is when your name is just an extension of the server domain where you are hosting your website. They request you to choose a name and you will see that name after the " / " . Ex: http://myserver.com/yourname, where, myserver.com would be the server that owns the domain and yourname after the " / " would be the extension creating a sub domain.

• Choose a name for your website- You should evaluate with time and focus on the name you wish for your website, it must be easy to learn and to remember, short and related to the theme of the site; in that way you are doing it simplest to your guests so they can learn it easily. If you choose long names or without a relation to the website, it will be almost impossible for your guests to remember it and probably they could delay years trying to finding out your website back, unless they have added you to their favorites.

• Editors (Software)- There are some many ways to create pages and different languages to do so too. If you know HTML already (language used to create pages) you ought know  "Notepad" is a good one to write it, but if you are a beginner and do not want to learn that language, then you must try using a program that integrates "WYIWYG" ("What you see is what you get"). You can find it on software like: FrontPage, Word, Works, Publisher, or its free version that you can download on Internet, "Open office". You should familiarize with those software and experiment with them. As you continue learning to use those programs, the most you will like them.

• Content of your website- You should focus to know, first f all, to which theme your web is oriented to. Nobody likes to get into disorganized pages where speak a lot without saying anything. You must create a menu or an index to guide your guests to the different sections on your website, in a clear and precise way. Use a simple language so everyone can understand you. If your orthography is not good, then ask for help to a friend or a relative. If you have nobody to ask for, then use the spelling features you can find in the program you use to create the pages (WORD, FRONTPAGE, etc...). All of us commit mistakes, but is not the same to enter in a page with some errors than in a page where there are errors since you get in.

• Web Design -If you want your pages to look stunning and attractive to your visitors, then you must get a design according to your likes but according to the message you want to expose on the website too. Your decision about the design is very important, because it can make your visitors to come back soon or just to leave your page once they enter. Your design would be a good size, not to big, because bigger size means more delay to see it, and believe me, there are a lot of people with no patience to wait a page to be downloaded, so they prefer to escape to other pages where they don't have to wait lot to see their content.

• Free Resources on Internet -You don't have to spend a lot of money to add free resources to your website like guestbook, counters, forums, etc. Click on the link above to get more information.

• Earn Money with your website - There are some ways to earn money with your website. It does not mean that you will become rich, but it can help you with that extra expenses that all of us have. The important thing is to choose the right place. It must be a trusty source which really pays you. Don't trust in that sites that try to convince you that you can earn thousand of dollars per day... be careful with that!!! Remember the phrase: If it is too good to be true, then doubt of it!!! Anyway, once you have selected a site that really pay you, follow their rules. I can recommend you Ad sense by Google.  That is the rule #1 for your success! Good luck :)

• Share your page and let it to be known- Once your page is uploaded and ready to be seen, it is the moment to present it to others. You can do it through search machines like Google, Altavista, Yahoo, Lycos, Infoseek, MSN, HotBot and others, where you can add you page for free; in that way, when somebody makes searches with keywords used on your page, then the search machine will find your website and will show it so they can click on the link to get into your pages. Another way to make your page to be known is visiting other pages and signing their guestbook. Visiting forums, inviting people by email (please, no spam... it will not help you if you do that).

• No Bandwidth stealing -A lot of people just use to do this kind of action for lack of knowledge.  If you are going to use a graphic that is hosted in another server and they bring you the opportunity to use it on your pages, even if they are freeware or linkware graphics, please download that graphic to your computer and then upload it to your own server where your website is located. If you use the graphic directly from the page you are looking the graphic that you like to, then you are stealing their bandwidth.  Sometimes, we receive awards and gifts from other website's owners, then in this case, you must do the same as explain above in order you can see them on your website without violating any rules.