Christa,

There seems to be some kind of rule, at least among some web hosts, that
once you pay for domain name registration, you cannot transfer it for a
period of time. My webhost had a one-month wait. I would not believe
what Godaddy is telling you. At the worst, you get another web host and
point your nameserver to it. (Your web host will explain what this means).

On another site, there was a discussion about web hosts. Try this link:
http://www.serif.com/forum/ViewThread.asp?Thread=27430&Numb=21

It might have something to help if you want to move.

I would avoid any site that wraps your pages in their framesets. I don't
know if Godaddy does this or not.

Mike

You admit you're a novice, yet blame GoDaddy for you not being able to
create a web site? hmmmmm.

Christa,

This issue about hosting with GoDaddy's free banner-supported hosting has
come up before. You can't change the way that Publisher writes HTML with
absolute positioning. You also can't expect a webhost to host your site for
free without some benefit, and thus the banner. You might try this code
snippet that was provided by another user. Use the insert HTML code fragment
tool in Publisher to insert the following code into each page:

<TITLE>Can't be in a frame</TITLE>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE=JAVASCRIPT TYPE="TEXT/JAVASCRIPT">
<!-- Hide script from old browsers

if (top.location != self.location) {
top.location = self.location

}

// End hiding script from old browsers -->
</SCRIPT>

Just copy and use Ctrl + V keys to paste it into the code fragment dialog
box. Then move that fragment box somewhere on your page where it doesn't
overlap any other design element, produce new HTML (Publish to the Web), and
upload that to your webspace. It might help with the banner issue. If it
doesn't then your options are to find different free space, or spend a
couple bucks a month and pay for hosting, which you will want to do
eventually anyway.

I think you misunderstood what was said. You can host your site at GoDaddy
or somewhere else. The fact that you have your domain name registered with
GoDaddy doesn't mean that you have to use GoDaddy's hosting service unless
perhaps you got a special price for registering your domain through them,
that was contingent upon you using there hosting service. I have my domain
names registered with GoDaddy and my sites are hosted elsewhere. I just
point them to the webhost. All GoDaddy was telling you was that you can't
change who "registers" your domain for you, for a year, and that doesn't
affect which webhost you choose. Registering domains and hosting websites
are generally two different things and GoDaddy has some of the best rates of
any of the domain registrars.

Personally, I would suggest that if the script I gave you above doesn't help
solve the problem with the free hosting, then just pay the $5 or so a month,
and use GoDaddy's paid hosting service. I would forget trying to find free
hosting as there is always a price to pay...no such thing as free. With the
paid hosting you will be able to upload your Publisher site and without the
banner requirement, your site will view just fine. If you want to use a
different web host, that will work too...you just go to GoDaddy and point
your domain to that host.

DavidF