Also feel free to email me with any questions you have – DC at YoungAdultMoney.com

Hi Regina – It totally depends on your budget. To be honest it’s SO much easier to have a designer create your site so it’s just the way you want it, but it will run you about $1,500 (includes the coding/backend work) or more than that. I had Liz Theresa design mine but paid for Nuts and Bolts to do the coding. If you have Liz’s coder do the backend work it’s a lot cheaper than the route I went and I’ve heard no complaints from others who used her coder.

Now most people don’t want to put thousands of dollars into their sites. I’d say look for a premium theme you like and then tweak it until it’s “good enough.” I had a pretty ugly/unprofessional/un-ideal site for about 3 1/2 years until I paid a designer, but it served it’s purpose. There are a lot of nice themes out there for $150 or less that will work. The toughest thing now imo is that there are SO MANY themes you can buy that it can take hours and hours to find one.

I almost want to shout to people “DON’T START WITH BLOGGER!” I have seen some successfully shift to WordPress but it’s such a pain and you never know what problems you will run into.