Don’t get too overwhelmed with finding web software, your blog will
be your “new” content for a while, as well as your squeeze pages and
affiliate redirect.

A great site that I spotted today is SproutBuilder.com – You can build a great quick online mini site, about me page, including multimedia, etc
Sprout is the quick and easy way for anyone to build, publish, and
manage widgets, mini-sites, mashups, banners and more. Any size, any
number of pages. Include video, audio, images and newsfeeds and choose
from dozens of pre-built components and web services. The site looks
really professional and I’m pretty sure that anyone even those without
any technical ability will be able to create a great website with it.

Alternatively, just use Brian’s free software at his page, or the
1stpage (below) to modify your squeeze pages enough to get it online to
begin with.

Free Web Software: http://www.evrsoft.com/1stpage2.shtml

If you are interested in what I use, I use a combination of Drupal, Frontpage, WordPress and XSitePro.

I’m an absolute newbie at Drupal and it is quite difficult to learn,
but it’s perfect for this website, as in, frontpage and xsitepro is no
good for these kinds of “membership sites”.

But they are good for affiliate sites.

So if you intend on making your own membership site like mine, you might also want to look into Drupal (http://drupal.org), it does my head in though, I’m constantly strained at wanting to basic things lol.. my head hurts :)

Actually, thinking about it… WordPress will probably fill the needs of everything you want to do, and it’s free :)

XSitePro is software built specifically for affiliate programs, and
you can read my review about it when I first bought it on one of my
blogs:
http://infoselling.blogspot.com/search?q=xsitepro

or directly to that page if the search above doesnt work:
http://infoselling.blogspot.com/2006/05/xsitepro-ive-bitten-bullet-and-bought.html

And Frontpage is a Microsoft product.

There are so many good web software out there, and most can do
everything you’ll need it to do. I only use Frontpage because I learnt
it first and am the most familiar with it. It’s not as fantastic as
some of the ones you can buy thesedays.

And I use XSitePro because it’s really easy to build lots of pages
that are SEO optimized really quickly and has in-built features to save
you doing a lot of the manual crap :)