Hi

First of all I am a rank newbie so apologies if my post is covering the same old ground.

I have had an idea for a web-page kicking around in my head for a year or so and the recent MYOB/Westpac initiative sort of energised me to try and translate the idea to an actual web-site. I have sat down and worked out how I want the web-site to look in Word and Excel but to my dismay when I looked at the MYOB tool I couldn't work out how to get it to work in their template.

A quick description of the web-site would be a homepage and maybe another page or two of narrative and then two registers/tables (sorry unsure of the correct term - something like an on-line spreadsheet database) with links to pages for each entry. On each individual page would be more narrative, some links and a comments posting section. At this stage that would be it but perhaps other things like advertising and on-line selling might be added later.

I have a unique selling proposition although my aims are modest and so are my budget and expectations, but hey I wish I could find a site like the one I have thought of so maybe others will as well.

Am I likely to be able to design a site like this with a free or inexpensive DIY web-site development tool? If yes would appreciate any suggestions for that tool?

Also would this type of site work on an inexpensive shared hosting site? Reading other forums I realise the super cheap hosting sites are too good to be true. I am thinking of the sort of $10-$2o per month varieties. Suggestions again would be welcome.

Thanks

Bolt