It depends on what you want to do. Custom shopping carts and payment gateways (if accepting orders online) usually look better than using a template or e-store solution. However, standardized solutions are a bit easier to install and manage sometimes. Remember to make the most important information accessible with ease using navigation bars or other techniques, and to display important contact information (phone number) and your logo on each page to build your brand.

To search and compare hosting services, might be a good site. Remember: cheaper isn’t always better, even if you get more space or bandwidth. I’ve had issues with cheap sites because they are too slow to upload pages to customers. You can expect to pay $7-10/mo for a good business package; if you go below $5/mo, make sure the host is reliable. For small business, you won’t need too much of the technical stuff, but PHP and SQL are recommended to help whoever is building your site.

My personal preference is IPower as it provides good value, a bunch of extra business services (not sure what you could use), is highly rated from reviews I’ve read as well, and serves pages quickly to customers. The space and bandwidth offered are more than you will ever use (a couple years ago I paid the same amount for about 1% of the space now being offered; it’s constantly increasing for all hosts as technology changes).

Web developers are also pretty cheap. Visit for pretty much any type of web development contracted at $12-16/hr. Usually get better results than using a standard web developer service in terms of quality as long as you know what you want.

is under $5/month, with great 24/7 phone support. is also very good

is a good host and is pretty inexpensive.

I would like to suggest following webhosting which I use, they are excellent.

Hostmonster

They offer hosting of “unlimited domains” and you will get massive webspace of 300000 MB (300 GB ). They only charge $5.95/month and they offer “a free Domain Name” and installing service called “Fantastico”. By using Fantastico, you could create own forum, photo gallery, shopping cart (e-commerce),your own auction site and your own blogs within few seconds. They also offer “Free Website Builder” as well.
Visit the site to check details.

Hostmonster

Domains
Following site is quite good to register domains as price is reasonable with free privacy. Some charge about $5/ year just for free privacy.

IPOWER