I would love to take a crack at this, but it's a little out of my league as I'm just learning too. But I do have an idea for you: my website is hosted at
1&1 Internet Inc. - Web Hosting Services and Domain Name Registration, and I find them to be great. I don't use my space for much of anything at the moment, just trying out bits of code as I learn them, but they have a website builder program as part of the hosting package as well as e-commerce payment options and a slew of other features thrown in. Why don't you have a look at that? The website builder program has a demo you can try out as well.