Quote Originally Posted by walterick
Peter, thanks! That's more than I expected.

I have to preface this by saying I am not hip to the terminology yet, so bear with me as I aske for clarifications on a few things.

I would love to take you up on your offer! Please explain to me exactly what it is you offer as most of what you said went over my head

Here's my goal: a personal website designed by me (I am planning on hand-coding so it will be a simple design) to be usedfor selling pictures, ie lots of images, also advertising my counesling services, woodworking and a place for personal thoughts and.. "blog" I think is the correct term. I hope that is a sufficient description of what I want. Let me know if there's any more information you need. I appreciate it!

Rick
You might consider more than one site. On for pics, one for couseling, one for woodworking. and a personal site for blogs. I would think somone interested in your pics or your counseling might night be looking to much in the way of woodworking. I thing the pic and the personal (blog) sites could be one, or the counseling and blog site could go together. The things between your ideas for sites don't go well together. You should make the subjects relate to any other subject on your site, but optimally you should go with one subject per site.

To help make money on the sites you need to increase your site's traffic and then you have a better chance at lucrative ad space salls or trades. Look for a host that doesn't include their banner ads or ads for their company or partners.