It seems, as with many things in life, new, uninitiated or young tend to give in to excitement and their urge to 'get moving' by using or buying first facility that comes along. A fatal and costly mistake, especially on Internet, where there are so many who are comfortable with selling something for more than it is worth compared to other options available. To begin with, you need an Internet presence to be online at all, so first thing is a Domain name. Domains (the 'address' of your website - like a phone number) can be chosen by using one of many facilities available to see if your choice is available (experience shows shorter domain names are more 'user friendly' and more easily remembered, obviously).

To check availability of a suitable domain name, go to: http://www.mydiscountdomains.com and select a domain name which is available. As a home based businessperson, it doesn't matter if you use .com, .net, .biz or any of other types of domains. You just can't use those like '.gov' that are reserved for specific types of website (.gov is obviously for Government concerns and Departments etc). At this time, I recommend '.biz' as it still has largest number of domain names available compared to '.com' or '.net'. A basic domain should not cost more than $20, but can be as little as $8, so shop around.

Having done this, you need to get your domain onto a Host Server. This basically means you have to have it 'installed' onto a public access server (not same as your Internet Service Provider like AOL - ISP's just supply access to Net - they don't 'host' domains) so people can access it or 'dial' it up. You need a Web Hosting company to do this and these offer a myriad of different plans and prices for all different needs of industry. As a Home Based Business just starting out, you don't need a terrible lot of anything to begin with, so plan you choose should be quite reasonably priced. As little as $3 per month will get you up and running easily, with all features you're likely to need.