The site is loaded - now for all the little mundane things like changing the meta information and turning on the search engine friendly urls in the Global Configuration panel.

See that loaded quickly

Now its on to the template

I have a membership over at
http://www.yootheme.com

I think I'll go pick out a template there to use.

Ecommerce websites--my first experiences and the road to a shopping cart solution:

After having built my first sites in a free site builder, I was wondering if there was an easier way. Turns out it wasn't an "easier way" I should have looked for but rather an easier to use web host. Frustrated with a literally hand built site in Yahoo, add slow response to support questions and overpriced hosting plans, I made it my mission to find better.

And I did. The...