Hey Bob,
I use Yahoo Business for my website. They have a basic free version, and you can upgrade when you want to start doing business on it. My website, Lionheart Creations is a yahoo small business site.
Now, their prices are not good, but they have one single thing that really helps. They have this thing called 'SiteBuilder' that is the most basic, most easy, most awesome little program for making a webpage and website. Basically its all drag and drop and it does all the code. You never see code, ever.. Just hit save, and publish to site, and Voila.. Webpages.. I can post pics on my website in like 1 min.
The thing I am getting at is, there are lots of great site providers out there, but the hurtle that I had was software. Finding Sitebuilder was a real blessing. Alot of people use programs like FrontPage and some others. There is a cool one called iWeb 09, but alas, its for Mac OSX. It would be nice if they came out with a Suite for Windows. Amazingly simple software and they have cool 'gallery' software with 'slideshow'.
Dreamweaver is also a good one, but I have only heard that per say. Never tried it.
Looking forward to seeing your website! Should be awesome....
Bill