Setting up a private wireless network to share a website

Hi, I have what I thought was a simple problem but after wandering through google for the past 3 days I can't find a canned solution or a reference I can understand.
This is what I would like to do - share a website on my netbook wirelessly with other machines in my office. Thats it, simple eh ?
OK, seriously, here is some background info, the basic environment and what I would like to do.
1) I do not have admin rights to my office workstation so I can't realistically trial commercial grade software or carry out some basic processing
2) I have repurposed a personal netbook running Windows Ultimate and SQL Server 2008 R2 Express as a secondary workstation so I do my work and possibly trial some reporting software
3) I have IIS running on the netbook
4) The reporting software I want to trial I have used before at another contract but I can't show it here because of 1) above, it is web-browser based zero-client solution
so all I need to do locally is to browse to a website created as part of the software install
5) I'd like to install the software on the netbook and then share its main website with other workstations wirelessly within the office so that other people can simply browse to the
website on the netbook and they can also assess its usefulness to the business
6) I do not want to use any existing wireless networks within the office
7) Potentially multiple users so prefer not to rdp into netbook
8) I would prefer not to have to install any additional software but I can onto the netbook if required
9) Would like to have it accessible by other devices, iPad, iPhone etc, if they can connect to the published wireless network and browse to the main page this should be doable
10) I am a complete ignoramus when it comes to hardware and OS software
Its quite possible that this is simply not an option with my Windows variant - if this is the case thats OK I'll think of something else.
If a router is required would something as basic as a 'D-Link DIR-505' do the trick ? (having said that I've also read its manual and there is nothing in it about being able to share
a service in the manner I require)
What I have tried thus far:
1) Creating an adhoc network secured by WPA-2 - but I don't know what to do with it, I am pretty sure I need certain services on the netbook to be running in order for other computers to discover
it but I don't know what these are
Ideally if someone could point me to a resource that does not discuss any of the following that would be helpful.
What I do not need
1) Sharing an internet connection
2) Sharing an existing wireless network
3) Doing simple file sharing
4) Media streaming
thanks

Hi,
According to your description, I think you what you want is a wi-fi. if so, you will need a router, each router has a guide to broadcast the wireless connection.
The following guide can also be helpful
Setting up a wireless network
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-hk/windows/setting-wireless-network#1TC=windows-7 
Regarding to file sharing and media streaming, not sure whether you have read the following articles but they're very useful indeed.
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-hk/windows/share-files-with-someone#1TC=windows-7
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-hk/windows7/getting-started-with-media-streaming
Regards
Yolanda Zhu
TechNet Community Support

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