[Zeke]

Timely thread. I just renewed my domain. I see sites that say "free domain transfer." I missed the part that you don't get to do free or cheaper domain re-registration. You just get a blind (?) link to your original domain where you have pointed it to your site. Be selective who you sign up for for your registration year after year before going into the merits of what anyone has for site building and maintenance.

Shaun, I have found out that there are scads of sites offering shopping cart site building based on open source software. What they are selling is templates and hopefully customer service. Volution seems to be fairly good at that.

Other sites (maybe GoDaddy) offer simple non interactive sites. I'm not at all versed in this stuff, but some sites are great for posting and maintaining a small informational site with some email. Great for individuals, clubs and organizations that don't want FB presence.