Never before in the history of human communication has it been so low a barrier and possible for writers and publishers to get their ideas out into the world. Technical barriers for stepping out into the Web world on your own require acquiring the know-how (or hiring and working with someone who has the knowledge) to handle some coding language and technical issues such as site hosting, as well as writing, editing and publishing. For those who relish a challenge and are self-motivated learners, it is not only possible, but utterly doable to learn online using tutorials and to learn by doing.

Online forums can help provide guidance, but as with any frontier (and the world of Web 2.0 is a true frontier), sometimes it can be difficult to tell the good guys from the bad guys who can appear to be helpful (and their advice can prove fatal to a web site, but more of that in another segment of the series.)

Here is a question and answer session, accomplished online and remotely.

Three Packt authors offer up pithy advice for those seeking to venture onto solo entrepreneur status for publishing and handing a Web site. For more visit: http://www.corpct.net/2009/05/05/frontier-web-site-development-and-cms/