Is it easy to set up your own website?  Cheap and easy to update etc?  Please can anyone give me a good provider - thank you

their was one advertised on tv called go daddy

I use webeden...

Use 1&1, believe they have the facility to build your own site but I'm such a luddite a friend did ours.

I use webeden for one, they are a nightmare! Annual subscription of £72, paid it on Friday, still cant access my website to update it etc as it says each time i need to pay. Only way to contact is via a contact form to which i have had no response!

I use Webs for my other one, they are pretty good

I have used Webeden for over 4 years now, never had a problem with my subscriptions, which my most recent was £27.

If you want the freedom to design your own there are programs to do this such as the one I use Serif Web plus.  This one is WYSIWYG, I have a pretty basic site and don't use any of the bells and whistles I could.

You either can get them hosted by your internet service provider, who often give free space as part of your internet package, or you can use something like Awardspace (no adverts), I use both as I ran out of space.

Disadvantage to your Internet provider hosted site is that should you wish to change who your with and everyone knows your website address, or you have stationery made with it, then you'd need to change your website address, or like me stay with an IPS you might prefer to change.

then there are sties like Weebly (know several friends who have one of these dead easy they say) and Bravenet etc who offer you free websites, that are partly predesigned and you fill in the blanks, usually they are limited in number of pages.

Bravenet is great for free tools like a Guestbook, counters etc

I paid for someone to do mine, a year later I've got another person sorting it so I can make updates and it's going on Wordpress.

Weebly and Webs are easy to do and they give a demonstration to show you how to do it. I use both.