How do you make a website?

[Jake]

The simplest web site platforms are blogs, that allow you to setup a site with no programming (there are other more proprietary Content Management Systems requiring similar skills as well) there are themes that can make one look more like a magazine than a blog, Google's Blogger.com a free one with no paid upgrades that allows Adsense revenue.

If you don't have a burning urge to share your passion for a topic, you may not have the sustained motivation to create a publication that gets enough traffic to earn advertising revenue, some sites need 10,000 visitors to earn the $100 min payout from Google Adsense. Being a gifted prolific writer or an expert on a subject wold improve your chances of being able to develop a following.

Wordpress is the industry blog platform used for some 17% of the top 1 Million sites on the internet, it's more versatile than Google's Blogger, what you crate and learn with wordpress could be applied to a more professional paid hosting sites later on. Wordpress.com is a free hosted version, that does have some paid upgrades.