I always tell my affiliate marketng students that they need to build their websites themselves.
For the reason that you will have ideas from time to time that you want to add to your site. If the site is built by you, it is simply a matter of firing up your HTML editor and off you go
If you have someone else build the site, updating your content will be such a hassle
Also there will be
SEO tips that you will want to implement on your pages, it's again really straight forward if you have built the site your self
Learn some HTML get a free HTML editor and just start. You'll be amazed how simple it really all is