Let’s be honest here outsourcing the building of your affiliate websites to professional designers can and will cost you at least a couple hundred dollars. There are a few places online where you can outsource your website building, places like guru.com, elance.com, scriptlance.com.

I’ve been looking at few sites offering ready made websites for a starting price of $500 plus, now this might work if you have the budget but I’m looking at creating affiliate marketing websites from a newbie standpoint.

Meaning not having a budget to talk about or very little money to spend on a 5 page website costing $500 or more by a professional designer.

So we are left with creating it on the cheap but we still want a professional looking affiliate marketing website to your own products or other peoples products.

As I mention earlier outsourcing can cost a bit so if you have the money to pay for it then by all means go for it but if you don’t here’s a really simple solution for you.

And that solution is Wordpress, I have to say that I haven’t found any website model that wordpress can’t handle. I am a fan of this amazing opensource platform and with the coming of the new version in April 2.5 we can expect wordpress to be evn more user friendly.

As I said part of the reason I’m a huge fan of this system is the fact that it cost nothing and you can use it to create professional looking website and it doesn’t matter what website model you choose to implement.

Here is an excellent resource for WORDPRESS BASICS TUTORIAL:

* WordPress Overview - How it works
* How WordPress Themes work
* How to install WordPress via Godaddy
* How to install WordPress via cPanel using Fantastico
* How to login to WP Dashboard
* How to upload and activate Themes and Plugins
* How to customize a Theme (overview)
* How to select different inside Page Templates
* How widgets work
* How to change header images/text
* How to setup a blog feed via Feedburner
* The difference between a Page and Post
* How to create a new Page or Post
* How to edit Pages/Posts
* How to set up new Users
* How to install Google Analytics stats
* How to put photos in a Post or Page

A great thing about using wordpress to run your affiliate marketing websites is it come pre-installed with most webhost that runs cpanel and have fantastico as their admin backend.

As always I would love to get your feedback, comments.

See you soon

–David

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