What's the best and cheapest way to set up a website?

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Just wondering how I can set my own website up for minimal costs and effort! I need one to generate work and look professional and have a limited timespan on when I need it by. Any suggestions welcome!

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It depends how much you know. Coffeecup do free html software that helps you set up basic webpages, this is the one I use and it has (fairly) fool proof instructions, take a look at www.coffeecup.com. If you want something a bit more advanced, you may have to pay for the software, approved software can be found at www.tucows.com. Some ms word packages also have web building templates built into them, but you will have to access a FTP program to upload them.