Thanks for all the suggestions everyone. I'm going to be putting this thread in my favorites so I can keep referring back to it because I have so little time to work on this right now. It'll probably be months before I actually have anything to show. However, if I practice with stuff for work, I can justify my time spent on this to my boss. So don't be surprised if in a couple of months I contact some of you privately for some help or suggestions.

Yes, I'm paying ipower. It was something like $7.95 a month and I got to register a domain name with them. I don't remember how many megabytes of storage I get or anything like that, but I'm thinking it's plenty for the time being - at least until I figure out what I'm doing here.

Thanks so much everyone!