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Ok guys.... I hate godaddy.com, they should be called We are a rip off.com.... I am mad... I payed not too much money but I want a good website for my clothing line, something inexpensive, easy to setup, professional and with a webstore!!!
if you're talking about a script, there's oscommerce.com (free, and I plan to use it) , zencart.com (free), and cubecart.com. and for hosting, Im with http://www.polurnet.com/ and I love it.
zencart is the best and the easiest to use. Best of all so many people are making modules for common problems so most of the work has been done for you
Ok guys.... I hate godaddy.com, they should be called We are a rip off.com.... I am mad... I payed not too much money but I want a good website for my clothing line, something inexpensive, easy to setup, professional and with a webstore!!!
forget those free hosting companies...
there's no free lunch ..at least ....no tasteful free lunch
I use them and for just the domain name alone
I have found them worth the money.
Sure they try to upsell you with add-ons
but you can forward your domain name to
any site online. That is a very powerful tool
when it comes to controling your internet
presence.
I have heard both sides of Go Daddy but I am
in the club that says free sites aren't worth
the time or energy in the long run.
I hate to sound negative but you get what you pay for. If it is cheap you want, it is cheap you'll get and as a result you'll be marketing your business less effectively than if you'd made the investment in the tools that will work for you. If your business and goals are important to you, I suggest finding the tools that work for you and that will make your online efforts successful regardless of the cost.
Just speaking from experience, I've seen many people fail with their online businesses due to investing in a Pinto rather than a Corvette and there are plenty of vehicles in between that are affordable and can drive you to achieving your goals.
I also want to say that I too agree that GoDaddy is horrible for someone who is new and learning.. HOWEVER i can not stress enough that if you do not want to spend about a year developing your website yourself a nd learning what is needed to fully customize your shopping cart, then you HAVE to hire a web developer/designer.. That is that.. It took me about 1 year to learn php and the oscommerce shopping cart software.. it was another year until i could really get in there and customize the shopping cart the way I wanted.. but it is SOOO worth it because I have a professional looking website and I learned a skill that is useful in my line of business...
The point is, if you do not want to learn and spend all of that time and frustration, your ONLY option is to hire a developer.
My suggestion to the first poster would then be the following.
KEEP your domain name with Go Daddy. You can drop the web page
without dropping your domain name. The two are separate. You can
go back with them or find another host for your site later. Changing
your domain to a different provider is also an option but until you are
ready to really move it's fine for the price where it is.
It's 10 bucks a year for just the domain name.
A domain name is very powerful and if you aren't taking advantage of the
free email address you should be.
You have to think of a domain as a telephone number. You don't want
to keep changing it on your customers and then paying for the change in
your advertising/business cards etc.
Hey guys we started using godaddy to register our website name but to host it we use mediatemple, we share a gridserver, its a pretty good deal its only $20 a month for hosting,were thinking of switching our domain name to them also, the customer service is A+++ . Give them a try.
Good prices, easy website with store 
