If you’ve ever thought about starting a new website, chances are you have looked into hiring a professional designer. A lot of design firms charge extremely high rates for simple websites, and in many cases there are additional costs for different types of functionality. With design firms charging such high rates, it’s hard to imagine getting a website off the ground on a budget, but it can definitely be done.

Setting up a site using Wordpress is actually fairly simple. If you’re comfortable with some light HTML, chances are you could do it yourself, as long as you’re not looking for anything too complicated. Most hosting providers offer an automatic install of Wordpress, and once it’s installed, all you really need to do is make a few simple tweaks to the theme to get it looking the way you want it to. If you’d like to add a little bit of additional functionality to your site, there are many plugins and widgets available for Wordpress that allow you to do a wide variety of things. There are some plugins to help with SEO optimization, some to add things like polls to your site, and some to allow you to embed a podcast right into a post. Some of them require a little more effort to set up than others, but if you’re on a tight budget it might be worth the time.

If design firm prices don’t fit in your budget, and you don’t feel like you could learn to set up a site on your own, there’s a third option. Sites like elance.com let you connect with many freelance designers. Freelancers can often product the same quality work that a large firm would deliver, but given that their operating cost is significantly lower, you’ll get a much better price out of them. It’s important to go through a site like elance rather than just searching Craigslist for a freelancer. Elance, and other sites like it let you see a designer’s profile, along with reviews of their work. That way, you can be sure you’re getting a designer that can handle your site, and won’t leave you high and dry if there’s a problem.

Don’t be discouraged by the prices big design firms offer. If you take the time to do a little work with your site yourself, or if you can find a freelancer that suits your budget, your site can become a reality, even if your budget is tight.

I’ve been following this guy for sometime called Yaro Starak who is from Australia and writes a blog called entrepreneurs-journey.com from which he writes about affiliate marketing and how to make money online, quite similar to what i write about.  He as been online for a long time and shares his experiences of how he makes money online.  His blog has become so popular he currently has at the time  of this writing – 78,778 RSS subscribers and currently gets 80,000+ unique visitors a month, 138,000+ page views a month.

Yaro has been working online since 1998 creating websites and has sold several successful online businesses.  He now teaches people online how to make money from running their own website business.  He now gets to travel around the world with his laptop living the ultimate .com lifestyle just from blogging.

Yaro first started out online like most of us by selling old items on ebays auction site selling items he had in his garage he no longer wanted.  He then moved onto creating a website selling and trading gaming and sports cards online and then later sold this website business for a large sum.

These days he makes money from his mastermind training program and affiliate marketing adverts he has spread accross his blogs and other websites he manages and makes on average $40,000 a month.

I’ve been following this guy for awhile called Mike Filsaime who is a very successful affiliate marketing expert who makes his money from online sales via a large network of websites he manages.

Mike started out as a general manager of an auto dealer before he decided to give this up to start his own online business to which he has built up to a multi million dollar business.

Mike is now an author, software developer, renowed speaker, personal coach, business consulant and an affiliate marketer.  Mike spend most of 2006 and 2007 as a speaker at many internet marketing conferences and has helped inspire many millions of people which is how he first become well recognised.  Although now adays he has retired from public speaking inorder to spend more time on his online businesses.

Mike made over 10 million sales between 2005 – 2007 and over 8 million dollars in sales in 2008.  He now expects to make near $10million in sales for 2009.

Mike first started out on his own and has now grown to a team of 36 staff all around the world helping manage his portfolio of successful websites.

His aim is to build up his business to a $100 million company which he isn’t far from doing at his very fast success he has made online.  From quitting his job as a general manager for an auto dealer he became an online millionaire within 3 years from affiliate marketing.

One of his greatest websites was the butterflymarketing.com which made $700,000.00 in sales in under 24 hours and went on to hit 1 million sales in under 5 days.

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I have put together a list of the top 10 most successful online entrepreneurs under 30 who have made their money online via their own website business

Most of them started out in their bedrooms and have now built up a multi million dollar online business

Picture	Name	Website Business	Description	Age	Networth
	Mark Zuckerberg	Facebook	Created the social networking site facebook	23	$700 Million
	Andrew Gower	Runescape	Created the famous online game Runescape.	28	$650 Million
	Chad Hurley	Youtube	Founder of the famous online video sharing website Youtube	30	$300 Million
	Blake Ross & David Hyatt	Mozilla	Creators of the internet browzer Mozilla Firefox	22	$120 Million
	Andrew Michael	Fast Hosts	Founder of the UK based Hosting Company	22	$110 Million
	Angelo Sotira	Deviant ART	Creator of the Artists websites Deviant ART	26	$75 Million
	John Vechey	PopCap Games	Creator of the famous online game portal website PopCap Games	28	$60 Million
	Alexander Levin	Image Shack	Created the image hosting website Image Shack	23	$56 Million
	Jake Nickell	Threadless	Created the online clothes store Threadless	28	$50 Million
	Greg Tseng and Johann Schleier-Smith	Tagged	Created the 3rd largest social network in the US and has over 80 Million members worldwide.	28	$45 Million

I only wish one day my name will be on that list some day… but hey we can all dream..