There are three ways of getting yourself a website: you can pay somebody to do the design and expect to spend between £50 and £200 per page; you can design it yourself, using a professional website creation tool like Dreamweaver or a budget one like WebPlus; or you can go to Mr Site.

The clever idea behind Takeaway Website Pro, the business version of Mr Site's service offering, is that it includes site design, a domain name of your own and Web hosting for a year on Mr Site's servers. After that you pay £8 per month (£96 per year) for continued hosting.

With Mr Site you do all your Web site design online. Having entered an activation number, you can pick an overall design from a range of nearly 100. While they are all quite smart, they're not particularly exciting, though you do have the facility to pimp them up with your own graphics.

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There are three work modes - Simple, Creative and Advanced - and the number of design tools on the screen swells from meagre to daunting, accordingly. You can add all kinds of page furniture, including radio buttons, check boxes and combo selectors, although you don't have free range over the page, working instead through a series of minor Wizards.

Mr Site can host an existing Web domain, or you can choose a name to be registered on the spot, assuming it's available. Mr Site supports .com, .net, .org, .info, .biz, .org.uk and .me.uk registrations. Your Web site can have up to 100 pages and consume up to 600MB of space, so it supports quite a substantial presence. The software can provide a PayPal cart for selling goods, a blog, site-wide search and a forum. Google AdSense adverts can also be included, which will pay you money.

The Pro version of Takeaway Website includes SiteBoost, designed to move your site up search lists, like those from Google. It enables you to add keywords for better search engine recognition, submit your site to search engines and to include a site map, which can also improve search results. Another part of SiteBoost is a professional statistics package, which offers details about the number and type of visitors to your site.

The Mr Site concept is well thought out and reasonably well executed, but whoever thought the smug little Mr Site logo in his black tuxedo and silver bow tie was a winner needs rehabilitating.

If you urgently need a basic Web site, a domain of your own and Web hosting with a minimum of effort, Mr Site offers all three. It takes quite a bit of effort, however, to move away from the pre-designed templates and give your site a more individual character.