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Alot depends on what you want to do with the website. AND how much you are willing to spend per month/year. AND how much time you have to maintain the website if you are doing it on your own. Have you tried Yahoo Business for a website?

Try going here: http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/?s_fptrough=ysb_acq_smallbiz_20081001

If you need a simple one page website - just something on the www, so that someone can find your nightclub - address, phone number, etc, - it's really simple and cheap to do via places like Yahoo.

But first you need to buy a domain name, like "nightclub.com" (good luck with THAT name - probably gone - can be as cheap as $10.00 per year.

Then you need a place to "park" it, what they call "hosting", about $12 month. Yahoo allows you to do both at the same time (see above link). AND if you change your mind, they are really good about canceling immediately - no questions asked and no sneak charges later on.

Or if you wanted to have a website where you sold stuff - maybe t-shirts from your now famous nightclub you need to have a shopping cart, so you need what's called an eCommerce website, which places like Yahoo also handles starting at about $40 month...go here: http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/ecommerce/
Just be aware that the lower priced eCommerce options require YOU to do all the imput, information etc, with their (very easy to use) templates. Or for more money per month (LOTS more money) they also give you the option of having one of their cracker-jack techo guys take care of all that for you.

GoDaddy.com has several options like Yahoo to park a simple website - they have great deals right now - as low as $5 month when you choose the economy yearly plan - try going here: https://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/hosting/hosting_build_website.asp?shopper%5Fid=&ci=3609&app%5Fhdr=0
(I like the DOZENS of great templates you can choose from)

Register.com also has similar options - http://www.register.com/build-a-website.rcmx with a plan for a simple website (no shopping cart) starting at around $13 per month or the eCommerce plan starting around $20.

I see you've also had some offers in this forum for people to help you - that's also an option.

Biggest questions that only you can answer is:
What is your end desired result of the website,and then based on that answer
How much are you willing to $pend (timewise or moneywise).

Hey VicShoes! I just wrote a blog post about informational sites on my company site- you can view that here: http://blog.solidcactus.com/news/information-sites-online-ad-for-your-business/.

Having a website for you as a nightclub owner is a great supplement to the other advertising you are doing. You need a website that captures your brand-- but also one that you can manage on your own easily. My company just launched a great new information site offering which uses an excellent content management system to make it easy for you and your staff to make updates to your weekly entertainment and specials! We get to know you and your business and build a custom site for you- no templates here! After all, your club is different!

Best.
Donna

If you need to add a database on your website to provide information to your users, such as lists of events or sign-up or contact us web forms, consider using www.HostedDatabase.com which offers simple to use web database functionality. There is a free, full-featured 30-day account available.

http://www.000webhost.com/123176.html i used this web site with free web hosting -they also could help you create your web site and web pages for free -they have tons of templates

Vicky,
There is a very inexpensive way to get started. Take it from me, I run nine web sites and I have very little extra time, so the approach has to be simple and intuitive.

The method I am about to suggest will cost you about $30-$90 a year in total. This includes getting a domain name, if you don't have one for your business already. The key to this approach is to use a great blog platform as your content management system.

First of all, find a good hosting service that is set up to support Wordpress. It is even better if they offer an automated method for setting up a Wordpress blog. The hosting service will be the major expense, costing you most of the amount I mentioned above. If you already have a domain name, you can transfer the domain name to the name server at the hosting company. This is all easy to do; I have done it dozens of times.

Next, have the hosting service install the latest release of Wordpress for you or use the utility in your c-panel, such as Simple Scripts or Fantastico to do this your self. This takes only minutes. Now, the fun part. Search for Wordpress templates on-line. You don't have to spend a dime; thousands are free thanks to some very talented, generous people out there. When you find one you like, you just need to unzip it on your computer and upload it to the hosting service using an FTP program.

Remember, much of this has not cost you anything and the results are great. You can add content and images and customize your new website all by yourself without needing professional help.

When your nightclub is offering a special, you just need to create a new post in your Wordpress blog and a few minutes later, you are done. No need to know HTML or PHP or CSS.

If you need any help, let me know. I currently have nine websites operating that are all based on this method.

Best Regards,
K Richard Douglas

Just to be clear, a blog is NOT a website and there are plenty of features that a website might have or need to have that are not possible on a blog. Don't get me wrong, blogs are great, but when someone asks about setting up a website, you need to be sure that a blog will suffice for their expectations.

Cheers,