There are a few things to consider when building a website for a business.

1. Are you selling products? If so you may require a shopping cart to be set up. Nearly all web hosting companies provide one and it can be set up via the admin panel (CPanel) on your hosting account.
2. Are you selling products that will be downloadable? If so you need to ensure that your monthly bandwidth quota will be sufficient to cover visitors browsing your site and downloading products. And you will want to ensure your download links are protected.
3. Design. You can either download free templates or paid templates from the web and edit them yourself using software such as NVU (free) or Dreamweaver (costs). These programs are known as WYSIWYG = What You See Is What You Get. Which means you don’t have to know HTML. You simply edit almost as if you were creating a word document. As you type and insert pictures and links the software automatically inserts code.

A lot of your website creation depends on your type of business and your budget.

If you’re not comfortable putting it together yourself and you can afford to invest some money, then I recommend outsourcing the work. You can do this through rentacoder.com or getafreelancer.com. You will need to work out what you want done.

Do you want a logo to be designed?
Will you supply a template? (I’d supply one as it will reduce your costs)
So in hiring someone you may want them to use the template you provide and set up your shopping cart, add your products, write descriptions for your products.

Do a Yahoo search for “free CSS templates” CSS is important - it means Cascading Style Sheet and it is a script that accompanies your website to manage the style and layout of your site pages.  A good source of free CSS templates is “freeCSStemplates.org”

Then check out similar jobs on rentacoder or getafreelancer to see what the going rates are. When choosing an outsource check their reviews! Ask for examples of their work and make sure they understand exactly what you want from them. Ensure they have HTML, Web Design, PHP, Perl, and maybe even JavaScript experience.

Good luck with your site.