Hello:
Front Page 2000 is a very nice program & it gets better as the up grades come out. I use it quite a bit. I've been using it for about 4 years & love it, the possibilities are unlimited. Their newsgroup is out of this world, they can help you better MSFP2K tech support can in most cases!
You should be able to get it hosted for about 21.95 a month or less. Unless you are going to be using ASP,MSQL,php3 or some of that other High Tech Mumbo Jumbo? Then the monthly fee will be more.
If you think you are going to be working on it a lot you probably need to learn it yourself. 50 to 1000 hours min to learn it & get the basics. LOL, Anybody can do it, it's just like cutting grass but to be very good you got to get past the learning curve!
If you just want a site & not make very many changes then I suggest you pay someone to build it for you. If you do decide to hire someone else to do it make sure they can go back later to do changes for you. Also get yourself pieces of paper & decide exactly how you want it, this alone will save you lots of extra charges. Look at lotsa sites & build yours from bits & pieces of others.
If you decide to have one built & can come up with idea of what you want, I would be glad to quote you a price. I'm not cheap & my work speaks for it's self. Just click on the link below or the little red house. I can also give you the URL of a pop secret site that I've been working on that has built in databases & will be a very well known site in time to come. E-mail me if your interested?
BTW,I kick butt on search engines AOL#11, Excite#6, HotBot#10, GoTo.com#10 & the list goes on. I knows them search engines & haven't even tried to bring them back up in months. A lot of folks have to pay the bucks just to get listing not near as good.