But I think that's very obvious! I've spent hours .. no, days, trying to find a "look" for the site - and failed. I am using DotNetNuke and you get skins for it. But they need to match the structure you want. I did have a bit of a lovely design yesterday, but it would have been impossible for me to change it to fit the structure I wanted.

So this morning, after another 4 hours searching for skins with the right structure, I finally found one that seemed to offer flexibility. But then which colour? There were some nice colours. So in the end I bought 11 bloomin' colours just so I could faff about and work out which I liked best.... I am now on the third (green) having already gone through teal and electricblue. So it is 20.15 and this is the 4th "look" the site has had today.

This is another aspect of working from home: you do spend a lot of time organsing yourself. Be prepared at first for most of your efforts to be: 99% effort/expense and 1% actually doing something useful! But once you're organised and know what you're doing that turns around.

In fact, most people fail at their own business because they fail to plan. They rush in, keen and eager to get started, wtihout reading instructions and with unrealistic expectations. When, by day 2, the phone still hasn't rung and they haven't earnt £1000 they go "that was useless" and stop.

I am now spending 7 hours a day on this site - and to be honest, you can't see anything for it! Neither can I most of the time. That is because I've been getting organised. But I need to launch it in the next week. Certainly there will be a real work at home website launch by 1 November at the very latest (even if I haven't decided on the colour of this!)

The lesson one can learn from this is: it is better to bite the bullet at the beginning and just buy what you need, than to spend weeks trying to search for things for free.  But catch 22 is: until you've started getting an income from your work at home you don't always have the money to splash out.

In my experience though, the people who have spent a lot of money on books and tools are certainly leagues ahead of me in income!