"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote

| I'd say learning to use an FTP client isn't _that_ much more onerous
| than learning to use some of the third-party hosting sites (especially
| if you include the user experience), but I accept that some's MMV.
|

I don't think it's difficult or complicated to have
a website, but as with a lot of tech, it's hard to
find the information and put it all together.

The engineers give you unreadable RFC files. The
marketers speak in gibberish, going on about leveraging
cutting edge solutions across the enterprise. And the
tech support people dumb it down to the point of
uselessness.

It's easy to use an FTP program, but before you get
to that point you have to have a grasp of http,
explorer-style interfaces, website server file layout,
domain name buying, owning and registration, HTML,
and TCP-IP. Most people have no idea how a website
shows up in a browser window, and no part of that
process is self-evident.