Is Adobe Muse Really That Simple?

[nellypope]

First of all I need give BIG thanks to Ab Editor for recommending Adobe Muse in the first place, after trying a plethora of editors and CMS my curiosity led me to Muse and quite frankly it's saved me blood sweat and tears. But is it really that simple? I'm now reading for hosting (I have purchased my domain name from a third party) and although muse gives you the opportunity to test your site for 30 days without obligation, I'm now thinking it may be simpler to host officially with them too?

So, has anyone had experience of this, cost, problems etc?
Also I want an address that does not contain the phrase Business Catalyst? I want www.nellipope.co.uk (e.g.)

Really sorry for the rather idiotic questions, I am a print designer by origin, this new fangled web design is all new to me.

[Buenchico]

Irrespective of whether your site is actually hosted on Adobe's server or elsewhere, you'll need to buy a suitable domain name from a service such as GoDaddy:
http://uk.godaddy.com/deals/
(In practice you never really 'buy' a domain name. You actually 'rent' it. GoDaddy charges £6.49 per year but with a fiver off for the first year).

You could then have the site hosted either by GoDaddy (for an additional fee) or by Adobe (upon payment of their fee). If you chose to use Adobe the 'real' address of your website would still include 'businesscatalyst' but the 'public' one (which people would type into their browser's address bar) would be the one provided by GoDaddy. All you would need to do would be to go into your GoDaddy account settings and set up BOTH 'domain forwarding' (which redirects people to the 'real' address of your website) and 'domain masking'(which keeps the 'public' address on display to visitors, rather than the 'real one').

There are hundreds of other firms which can sell you a domain name, often far cheaper than GoDaddy, but watch out for additional charges. GoDaddy's fees INCLUDE both domain forwarding and domain masking. Other providers often charge EXTRA for those services.