GoDaddy.com and/or another place for a website.

[hemi68charger]

Hey Gang..
Kim's thinking of starting up a business selling tottler/kids clothing. She's been investigating GoDaddy.com in order to create a website with a unique website. Anyone with experience with this? GoDaddy just supplies the rights to use a url address and a place to put the website (files). With the later being said, what software is good for a novice? I'm assuming pages are created and loaded to a particular address?

Thanks..
Troy

[Troy]

That depends. Do you want a web store? GoDaddy's basic (free) web package includes space and a simple content editor. If you want anything more advanced than that or need the ability to handle more traffic then you'll have to come up with something else. I'm running a very basic site for a local business using one of their packages and it's fine for that.

Troy

[68X426]

A charitable foundation I'm involved with (volunteers helping volunteers, complete shoe-string budget) tried using several providers, tools, and cheap on-line companies to start up, design, and maintain their website. Nothing but problems and dissatisfaction. Granted the group is on a harsh budget but as usual you get what you pay for - cheap means cheap and that means poor quality.

Then they came upon Intuit. http://www.intuit.com/website-building-software/

The group is extremely pleased with the price and the quality. They rave about how well it came together, how user friendly and how cheap.

So I guess you can call this an endorsement for the Intuit web builder.

[mikepmcs]

you guys will probably roast me for this but my suggestion is ebay if you're gonna sell clothes.  She'll get a good feel for what it's like without spending a bunch of money on securing a domain, building a site, and then....trying to get her name out there for the masses to see.  IMHO, unless you know how to manipulate the system(ad words, etc....) it will cost you money to help people find your site. In other words you'll buy the domain, build the site and then hope somebody stumbles upon it while searching clothes.  
I just did a quick search for "toddlers clothes" and this is what it returned.
http://www.google.com/search?q=toddler+clothes&sourceid=ie7&rls=com.microsoft:en-US&ie=utf8&oe=utf8
What will get her site in that pack of initial hits? Search engine stuff, which I know very little about...
discuss.

I used godaddy to secure my domains and that's it for now.  I am not smart on the subject and hopefully you have a friend that can let you in on the secrets to getting hits when people search for stuff...without spending a ton of money.
My site is pretty simple as it's driven by Smugmug. I just pointed my domains to my smugmug page and there you go.  Right now it's a glorified photo album for me but some day....some day....

another way is find the biggest selling kids clothes site and get a bunch of domains that are 1 letter off and then point them all to the same site(hers).  that could work, couldn't it.

[ODZKing]

Here is one I've used:
http://www.fyiworld.com/grid.htm

[TruckDriver]

I used GoDaddy when I built the 4th Gen Charger site. I liked it. I know the current owner still uses it too.