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I have had a number of sites (including an on-line store) I use GoDaddy as my hosting company. They have a service called website tonight that may help you get a site up and started quickly. I use Microsoft FrontPage to design my sites and Mals E-Commerce for my shopping carts (it's a free cart, does require a bit of HTML knowledge, but not much)
For an example, I designed and maintain the following store site www.thepumpexpress.com. It is completely designed with FrontPage and uses the cart from Mals.
For a site without a shopping system, you can see my website www.inthemomentphotographs.com this site is also done in FrontPage with the slideshows done with a program called how ShowIt Web.
Hope this helps, let me know if you want more info.
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