[KantianBurke]

wow!! thats some great advice! I'll definetly look into all that ASAP. Thank you very much N-X!

[visualops]

Again, depending on what you are looking to create, website domain registration and hosting are considerably cheaper than that. You can register for as low as $8. Hosting plans vary, based on services offered, in addition to upload space and available bandwidth.
Running a server over a cable connection, you will find is against policy, and they can terminate your account. You can run a server over a DSL connection. Make sure you do your research regarding security and other issues.

[dware]

If you are wanting something simple, you can get hosting from Tracy Brant (tbrant@gryphynmedia.com) for just $24 a YEAR. That includes hosting your domain, so you don't have to worry about forwarding.

As for domain registration, check out godaddy.com. They are dirt cheap to register a domain (something like $8.95/year, $6.95 if you pay for a certain amount of years ahead of time).

Finally, I found Netscape's Composer to be EXTREMELY helpful when I first started out. You can do a wide range of stuff with it (but nothing really fancy). Generally, I start a new page in Composer, get the basic elements on there, and then edit the fancy stuff in with MS Notepad, though knowledge of HTML is needed to do so.

If you check with Tracy, let her n\know David Ware sent you (no, I don't get a kickback, but she is a friend & likes to know when I send biz to her).

[Fiddlstix]

I've never used one of the html editors. I just write my code on notepad or sometimes wordpad and then save it with the html extension instead of the txt extension. I've never had a problem doing it that way. It's very easy to do. There are some very good html threads here at FR

• HTML Bootcamp (or Wow, how did they do that?)
  
  
• HTML for FReeper Newbies
  
  
• HTML Sandbox (Original Thread)
  
  
• HTML Sandbox (New Thread)
  
  
• Reference HTML Cheatsheet

There are some very good websites such as www.bignosebird.com
Hope this may be of help
J