Setting Up a Webpage: Looking for either advice or some help

[Paulonius]

I know that there are a bunch of you with experience designing websites on here.  I need to put up a new website for my business as I am going with a new name and primary location. Ideally I would be able to do it myself, but I honestly don't know what is out there as far as tools or hosting options and would like some basic advice.


Option One:  I don't mind paying someone to setup a website for me, and I already have one that most of the material can be stolen from that I am going to shut down, or submerge into the new one -- redirecting to the new site.

Option Two:  I find a tool that lets me build the thing myself and I go that route.  Not sure where to begin, or how long this will take me to get done.  I have some knowledge of metadata and such, but I don't really know where to start with setting it up on a host site and building the actual pages. Would love suggestions.

[Masscre]

Who is your host Paul.  Alot of host include either software to make a site with or offer a service to build one for you at a very small fee or sometimes free.  Then you have a ton of packages out there that a free on the web and several great packages like adobe that is expensive.

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[Paulonius]

My current site is hosted on GoDaddy, but I don't have any loyalty to that company Danica Patrick notwithstanding.  Ideally I would put it somewhere that is stable, can provide good security, and offers tools to let me build a good website myself.  Does that help anything come to mind as a place for me to go with it?

[TrailMyx]

ScriptUO is hosted by Hostgator.  Actually, UOCoders was also hosted there as well.  I love their support and the servers are generally not oversold.  I've been totally pleased with their performance.  We've only had one snafu a few months ago, but they fixed it relatively quickly.

We started out on Hypermart, and that was a disaster.  Totally oversold.

[UOMaddog]

I host my own website on an AMD Athlon X2 64 6000 with 2GB of RAM. I run Windows Server 2008 R2 and SQL Server 2008. I was lazy and use DotNetNuke for a content management system. Very flexible, skinnable, etc. If you look in the Elite section, I have a link to my site in there (with my personal script library and everything). I only have a 6MB Down/1MB Up internet connection and it still runs great. I bought the domain through GoDaddy for $0.89 for the first year, $5.99 a year after that (gotta love promos!) I use DynDns.org to route the domain to my router, then I have the correct ports forwarded to my server. It's not nearly as slow as I expected it to be, in fact, it is actually pretty darn fast!