I have an idea for a company. I wish to 1st purchase the domain name. I was looking at www.godaddy.com to do this as someone else recommended it. Does it truly only cost ~$9.00 to buy a name or are there going to be more tack on fees as I go thru the process of buying a domain name. Once I were to purchase my domain name, what do I do with it? Do I just basically own a blank page? What does it mean to host? I did html programming in 1 college class and used an FTP program to upload everything I did. It would update and show up in my personal website address that was given to me by my university. Now that I will have my own new domain name, how will I be able to upload my site design onto the internet for others to see? Also I see some packages include web designs and some other things for a few hundred bucks. How do those work? My site will be very complex and have many different submenu's and whatnot. Down the road I will also be accepting credit card payments.

Yahoo web site builders is great! I use Simple Payment Systems for credit cards all the software to accept credit cards is free and you can get a shopping cart also. Cheaper than PayPal too.

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