First of all, check out Homestead- a wonderful source for hosting and building your own website. You can find them at www.homestead.com.
They have great prices- a variety of plans to chose from and awesome templates to use to help you design your site. It is by far the easiest site to use for those of you who might not think in HTML (which I don't) Check them out, see if you might like what they have to offer. BTW- they have GREAT tech support!
Another great site, if your an aspiring author-or even just a part time writer (or wanna be, like me) is Critters. It's an on-line writing workshop...and it's free. You get a chance to submit your own work and get real feedback. Of course, you have to critique other work for that privilege. Check it out, it's worth it.
For those of you who are looking for places to get noticed- try Duotrope, Ralan, First Writers and SpecfiWorld. There are links to all these places on the home page. Some are free...some aren't. But they are all well worth the effort of visiting.
I will be adding other sites to check out, so visit us often...and if you have a site , let us know. Just send us a note and we will gladly look at adding you to our suggested links site. (pornographic material, or sexually explicit sites need not apply)