After procuring a domain name, you should decide what you want your web site to do. We'll come back to that, because you're naturally going to want to have some idea of costs and features available in a hosting provider.
I can't tell you very much about the relative merits of the providers, but i recently did some fast research and picked one. What and why below. You might want to do some comparative searching of one company vs another, looking for business news. There is a lot of change in this business, and struggle for world domination. Some of these companies are huge.
aiso.net
Green company. I looked at at least one nice site made on this host. It might appeal to you.
amazon cloud
Last i looked you could set up a server in the Amazon clould fairly inexpensively if you have the technical knowledge and want extended capabilities. Nothing i'm aware of for beginners.
bigfolio.com
$349 or $499 + $19/month. Confusing pricing.
Wordpress installed (and default?).
Ftp access.
Lots of features.
Mobile and tablet site included.
bludomain.com
Confusing. Seems very limited. Pricing is what? One time?
Lots of extra pricing for non-basic features.
hostgator.com
Lots of capabilities. This hosting seems to throw a net over just about every kind of capability you might want. A fair amount of it is part of the base fee. There are several levels of fees, and best deals for multi-year contracts -- be sure to look at the term of contract when comparing fees in all these hosts.
$81.71 for 1 year on "unlimited" plan: unlimited bandwidth and storage, 1 domain name. Includes basic weebly and email.
Template web building uses some version of Weebly. See Weebly. Basic templates are very limited.
Security tools. Some security scanning comes with basic fee, but there are also higher levels of security scanning for additional fees.
A good maintainer management 'console', but it's not for beginners.
jux.com
Wierd. Kind of like a really creative blog, visual oriented.
weebly
Read about wix and weebly in Tech Crunch
http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/24/as-wix-heads-toward-ipo-weebly-looks-to-expand-with-big-new-sf-headquarters-plans-to-add-500-employees/
Basic web site builder is pretty easy to use, but limited. Limited to only 6 pages of content, really too few to be much more than introductory use. See my current site, 9/9/13, http://bobworthyart.com, hosted through hostgator, but built by weebly.
wix.com
Free initial site.
12.42/month (year contract) for Unlimited site.
16.17/month (year contract) for eCommerce.
Template site tools. Some require ecommerce contract, most no extra charge. Invent your own layout with blank templates (no doubt a lot of work).
zenfolio.com
Specifically for photos, i.e., photographers.
With shopping cart $120/yr.
Looks like a good site. Features comparable to other hosting.
I picked hostgator, in large part because my daughter is familiar with it, and we are collaborating. Price and services are good so far.
Comments on these features, and further notes in later blog posts.
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