You can build your own website if you have a little patience, and the ability to learn simple computer skills. Some of the best web hosts offer easy install of some of the best free source CMS (Content Management Systems) on the web.
A CMS is much more sophisticated than having a simple website. They are designed with a database which store information to be recalled on other parts of your website. Forums are a popular use of data bases. They store member names, posts, join dates, etc.

Flexibility in choice for your web site is important. Pick a web host who offers a large variety of easy to install website templates AND offers the latest and greatest Content Management Systems, Blog sites, Forum (Discussion Boards) sites, Customer Relationship sites, E-Commerce sites, ready made web site templates and more. All of which are easily installed through the web hosting control panel.

My Web Host
currently offers the following FREE (with hosting package) and easy to install web site statagies:

Blogs

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  b2evolution
  Short description: A blog script featuring multiple blogs, categories/sub-categories, skins, search function, multiple languages, search engines friendly URLs.
  
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  Nucleus
  Short description: A powerful blog script featuring multiple blogs, multiple authors, drafts and future posts, bookmarklets.
  
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  WordPress
  Short description: WordPress is a personal publishing tool with focus on aesthetics and featuring cross-blog tool, password protected posts, importing, typographical niceties, multiple authors, bookmarklets.

Content Management

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  Drupal
  Short description: An advanced portal with collaborative book, search engines friendly URLs, online help, roles, full content search, site watching, threaded comments, version control, blogging, news aggregator.
  
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  Geeklog
  Short description: A portal system with a wide range of modules. Used to create CattyShaq.com
  
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  Joomla 1.5
  Short description: Joomla! is one of the most powerful Open Source Content Management Systems on the planet. It is used all over the world for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications. Joomla! is easy to install, simple to manage, and reliable.
  
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  Joomla
  Short description: Joomla! is one of the most powerful Open Source Content Management Systems on the planet. It is used all over the world for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications. Joomla! is easy to install, simple to manage, and reliable.
  
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  Mambo Open Source
  Short description: A professional level yet easy to use Content Management System featuring inline WYSIWYG content editors, newsfeeds, syndicated news, banners, mailing users, links manager, statistics, content archiving, date based content, 20 languages, modules and components.
  
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  PHP-Nuke
  Short description: One of the most popular community-based portals with a big choice of modules and languages.
  
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  phpWCMS
  Short description: phpWCMS is perfect for professional, public and private users. It is very easy to learn and gives you the flexibility to separate layout and content. Lots of powerful but simple implemented features assists publishers and web developers too.
  
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  phpWebSite
  Short description: Very powerful Content Management System with document manager, announcements, menu manager, photo album, block maker, FAQ, web pages maker, polls, information categorizer, calendar, link manager, form generator.
  
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  Post-Nuke
  Short description: A Content Management System with focus on flexibility and security. A big variety of modules and blocks makes this CMS an allround tool.
  
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  Siteframe
  Short description: A straightforward content-management system designed for rapid deployment of community-based websites. Nice-looking templates, oriented toward document-sharing, clean interface.
  
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  Xoops
  Short description: A very popular advanced portal system.

Customer Relationship

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  Crafty Syntax Live Help
  Short description: A Live Help chat system featuring monitor your visitors, proactively open a chat session, multiple chat sessions, referer tracking, page view tracking, multiple operators, canned responses/images/URLs, multiple departments each with different icons, leave a message.
  
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  Help Center Live
  Short description: Very powerful all-in-one help center including Live Help, Support Tickets and FAQ. Features include unlimited operators/departments, monitor visitors, initiate chat, collect visitor's information, track visitor's footprint, autosave chat transcripts, canned messages, leave a message, auto-assign tickets to operators, unlimited FAQ topics.
  
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  osTicket
  
  Short description: A Support Tickets system featuring email piping, pop3 login, unlimited email addresses, admin/staff/user panels, avoid autoresponder loops, limit maximun tickets user can have opened, accept attachments and limit size, pager alerts for admin.
  
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  PHP Support Tickets
  Short description: A simple, one-admin Support Tickets system featuring self-registering, emailing to admin, attachments.
  
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  Support Services Manager
  Short description: Visit site for more information.

Discussion Boards

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  phpBB
  Short description: A widely-popular open-source bulletin-board package, works well, simple user interface and admin panel, clean look, scales well, and can be customized.
  
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  SMF
  Short description: Elegant. Effective. Powerful. Free. SMF is all of the above. SMF is a next-generation community software package and is jam-packed with features, while at the same time having a minimal impact on resources.

E-Commerce

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  CubeCart
  Short description: An easy to use yet powerful shopping cart featuring unlimited categories and products, multiple payment gateways, downloadable products. The design is very easy to modify.
  
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  OS Commerce
  Short description: A power-user shopping cart with a big variety of modules and support of almost every payment gateway. A big developers community is ready to offer custom solutions depending on your needs.
  
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  Zen Cart
  Short description: Zen Cart truly is the art of e-commerce; a free, user-friendly, open source shopping cart system. The software is being developed by group of like-minded shop owners, programmers, designers, and consultants that think e-commerce could be and should be done differently.

F.A.Q.

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  FAQMasterFlex
  Short description: Unlimited categories/questions/answers, web-based administration.

Hosting Billing

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  AccountLab Plus
  Short description: AccountLab can lookup over 180 TLD's, have unlimited hosting plans, offer monthly, quarterly, six monthly and yearly payment options, handle tax. AccountLab works with PayPal, WorldPay (FuturePay), NoChex, 2checkout and offline payments such as checks or bank transfer.
  
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  phpCOIN
  Short description: A full billing/invoicing application, perfect for webhosting resellers.

Image Galleries

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  4Images Gallery
  Short description: An Image Gallery system featuring unlimited categories/subcategories, web-based and FTP images upload, auto-thumbnails, comments, send a picture, rate a picture, random pictures, extensive administration panel.
  
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  Coppermine Photo Gallery
  Short description: An Image Gallery system featuring categories and albums, thumbnails and intermediate size pics, search feature, new and random pictures, user management (private galleries, groups), user comments, e-cards feature, slideshow viewer.
  
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  Gallery
  Short description: An Image Gallery system featuring albums within albums, thumbnailing specific picture area, captions, rotate, reorder pictures, album-based attributes, album mirroring.

Polls and Surveys

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  Advanced Poll
  Short description: A highly windows-inspired poll script.
  
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  LimeSurvey
  Short description: LimeSurvey (formerly PHPSurveyor) is an open source online survey application. It enables users to develop, publish and collect responses to surveys. Surveys can include branching, custom preferred layout and design (using a web template system), and can provide basic statistical analysis of survey results. Surveys can be public, or can be strictly controlled through the use of "once-only" tokens for each survey participant.
  
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  phpESP
  Short description: PhpESP is an effective, capable, web-based survey application that enables businesses to create complex and advanced surveys, view results in real time, and carry out advanced analysis.

Project Management

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  PHProjekt
  Short description: Project Management featuring optional group system, privileges, calendar, contacts, time card, projects, chat, forum, request tracker, mail client, files, notes, bookmarks, to-do list, reminder, voting, language support.

Site Builders

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  Templates Express
  Short description: Use Templates Express to install static templates to your website. You will need to use FTP and edit the html files, replacing the default text with your own text. Standard information like title, name, address and similar will be collected during installation and placed into the installed template in the appropriate locations.

Wiki

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  TikiWiki
  Short description: TikiWiki is designed to be an international, clean and extensible Content Management System and Groupware that can be used to create all sorts of web applications, sites, portals, intranets and extranets. TikiWiki also works great as a web-based collaboration tool. TikiWiki has a lot of native options and sections that you can enable/disable as you need them.
  
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  PhpWiki
  Short description: PhpWiki is a web site where anyone can edit the pages through an HTML form. Linking is done automatically on the server side; all pages are stored in a database.

Other Scripts

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  Moodle
  Short description: A course management system designed to help educators create quality online courses. Available in 34 languages and features a WYSIWYG HTML editor. The teacher has full control over all settings for a course. There is a flexible array of course activities (Forums, Journals, Quizzes, Resources, Choices, Surveys, Assignments, Chats, Workshops), user logging and tracking, mail integration and much more.
  
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  Open-Realty
  Short description: Real Estate listing system featuring attachments, flexible search, template system, Yahoo Maps interface.
  
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  phpAdsNew
  Short description: A highly professional complete ad server featuring different types of ads, display based on keywords, zones, hour of the day, day of the week, extensive statistics, client statistics.
  
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  phpFormGenerator
  Short description: A form generator featuring up to 100 form fields, all kind of input fields incl. file upload, customizable fields attributes, send submitted data to an email address or store them in a database, admin panel.
  
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  WebCalendar
  Short description: A very powerful webcalendar featuring private and public calendars.