You’re a person. You want a website. Where do you start?

If you just want to get started now, and your focus is really on what you have to say (or figuring out what that is), and you’re not if sure this is something you want to spend money on, but on the other hand, you don’t want it to suck — then my honest-to-gosh best recommendation for you is start with Blogger.

Blogger? Really? Why?

Blogger is dead-simple. It’s also relatively well-coded*. A-list designers like Douglas Bowman contributed some of the themes. You can look at a Blogger site and your eyes won’t bleed.

Blogger sites are legible and findable. Sure there’s an ad above the banner at the top, but it’s minimal.

Blogger also lets you leave it gracefully behind when you’ve outgrown it. You can export your content and import it into something a bit more customizable and sophisticated, like WordPress.

*Disclaimer: All content management systems add code-clutter and passels of extra files. It’s a matter of degree. Blogger isn’t too ugly, as CMS’s go. For really clean code, though, nothing beats custom all the way. Assuming your designer-developer knows how to code.

What if I want it to be more personal? More customized?

Stay tuned. I have a lot more to say on this topic.