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Black Cat Networks are excellent hosting providers and have competitive prices for domain name registration. They are my hosting choice, and I recommend them to you.
This interview at the Online School Of Design (no affiliation) summarises the reasons why I build Web pages the way I do.
An excellent section on HowToCreate displays and explains much of the anti-standard (as opposed to merely incomplete) behaviour that Microsoft's Internet Explorer exhibits.
Firefox is my Web browser of choice. I recommend it to you.