Eventually most people want to create their own website, this guide covers the basics ideas, planning and implementation behind doing such a thing for a content heavy website all the while bearing in mind things like the cost of on-going maintenance. This is not designed to be a guide to writing your first ever website - one of the major assumptions the guide makes is that you are happy with your own ability to create this content. Most of the material in this guide is based on my own experiences while setting up this site and covers the entire design and development life-cycle - at the end you should have an idea what is involved in creating a website which is of a decent size, yet due to