I have an idea for a website, and I have some experience with html, and learning any more design techniques I can do on my own. I've only had websites with angelfire.com, but now I want to have my own domain name and advertising that I'm getting paid for hosting. How do I create my own domain name with some web space to work with, and after that, how do I offer my page as advertising grounds?

Well, I can help you get started with the unique domain name part. First go to a domain name registration site. Be careful though, many are shady and unstable. I developed a web site for the company I work for, and found out the hard way that domain name carriers can be crooks. Here is the site I've found to be reliable and we now use: http://www.domaindirect.com/

If you go to this web site, one of the first things you see is SEARCH in red, just plug in what you want for a domain name and it'll search it to see if it's already taken. That's the easy part.

Once you've figured out what you want for a domain name, then register it. This will cost a little money, but domaindirect has a few options, one of which you might find affordable. In order to use a domain name, it must be registered, this is unavoidable. If you try to go with some other domain registration site that advertises really cheap domain names, they might nickel and dime you every time you turn around, and they'll be real annoying about it, and they may not have reliable servers, and your site many suffer down time because of that........unless of course you choose to host your own domain, and that's a bit more tricky......but, regardless, you still must register your domain name.......If you choose to host your own site (that means the actual site is on your computer which is connected to the net at all times, and you'll need a real good firewall, and have the knowledge of how to keep hackers out of your computer and off your site) then you'll have to learn how to do all of that yourself or from someone else because I don't know about that. However, domaindirect has web hosting packages you may purchase along with your domain name registration. I found them to be very affordable. Usually, especially for a beginner domain, you'll only need one of the cheaper smaller packages, so don't waste your money on something fancy. Of course, you'll have to have some sort of idea of how many megabytes you'll need for your web site if you have it hosted through domaindirect or any other domain name server/host.