naiquevin - 6:37 am on Feb 2, 2009 (gmt 0)

Thanks everyone for your guidance..
So what I could understand from these replies is that

1) Register a domain name
2) Get a host
3) Get a FTP software... (had dloadd xampp cp for working with joomla ... FilezillaFTP came along with that.. I guess that will work)
4) Upload the folder containing the index page and all the linked html files and images to the FTP server so that there should be a folder on the server just the way i have it on my disk. And it will work!

Have I got it right .. pls correct me

@Marcia - why keep the domain name separate from hosting service providr. any specific reasons? I had actually finalized on a Combo plan

Thanks again!