Well, I'm finally made the plunge and signed up with DreamHost. I now almost have a website up. What I currently have is a Wordpress weblog which apparently has some configuration problems. I can change the settings and edit comments, but I can't actually make posts or edit the default "Hello, World" post to begin with. In short, it's currently useless for me to link to until I can figure out what I've screwed up. Hopefully tomorrow I'll be able to invite you all over to the birth of the new site, but for now it requires a bit more gestation.

Additional: looks like the whole problem was from me setting up my website to run without the standard "www" prefix. Seems to be working now. Maybe I'll have the thing at base functionality tonight after all...