With today’s economy, more and more people are turning to a home based business to earn income, as finding a job has become so difficult. Starting a business just seems easier. And for many people this is true. However, you cannot be a successful business today if you do not have a website. Luckily, building a home based business website does not have to be expensive or an unpleasant chore. Follow these easy steps to create your own home based business website.1. Decide what your home based business will be. It can be anything you like, but make the decision before you start building a website. Otherwise your website has no direction.2. Consider what pages you will want in your home based business website. You will likely want a home page, an about us page, and a contact us page. You will also need pages that describe your products or services.3. Write the content for your web pages and create, find or take photos for your graphics for your site. Get all of this in order in advance. If you are selling products, make sure all of your product descriptions and information is in order as well.4. Choose a website builder. You will need a website builder especially if you have little to no knowledge of HTML code, CSS, flash or Java. You want your site to look professional, so choose your software carefully. You can choose from web based applications or software you install on your computer. There are free versions, or you can make a small investment to be certain you have all the features you want or need. Often your web hoster will offer an online web builder, or you can find other web based builders via the internet.5. Decide on how you will take payments on your home based business website. You may or may not need to take payments via the internet. If you are selling a service, you may consider adding a PayPal button. This will require that you copy and paste code from PayPal into your website editor. Alternatively, if you are selling products, you will need a shopping cart. There may be a shopping cart included in your website builder. However, if there is not, there are many shopping carts available for use with your website. Most of them are web based applications, and they run by copying and pasting code into your editor, or by directing people to an outside page to actually order products.6. Determine what other tools you want to include in your website, such as a guest book or contact forms. If these tools are not included in your software, locate them and get the code that needs to be copied into your site.7. Start building your site from the ground up. You should now have everything you need to build your home based business website easily and quickly.