If you're preferring to hire someone to build a site, my brother and I have built many. We can even build the initial design and then you have it and you can edit / modify it to your heart's content. Contact info is in my profile.
You can learn how to build a site but you will not do it in a matter of hours. I'd have to disagree there. Sure, you can have something up, but designing a decent site is going to take from several to many hours, depending on what you want. No way around it, I don't care how good you are.
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Bill
SmallGig.com