Best way to create web site, to show and market art by a (poor)artist.?

[PhoenixLeo]

If you're on a budget, Google Sites are free (with no annoying ads) and you can place in photos, slideshows (using Picasa), and videos, maps and other cool gadgets. It's easily customisable and you don't need to know code and you can personalise it by making your own headers in photoshop. You can authorise/give permission to people to edit your site if you need help with the design.

All you need to pay for is your own domain name if you would like one and they are pretty cheap these days. When you have it you can link it to your google site and it looks more professional having your own domain name.

It's great to promote yourself, but if you want to sell you may need an e-commerce site I found one called freewebstore, but I've not used it, so don't know how it works.

If you would like to sell prints Redbubble is a great artist community and if you would like to sell your work on T-Shirts you can get a simple Cafepress shop for free. It's no hassle, you just upload your images and the websites do the rest (i.e printing, sending and customer service.) You just take a percentage of the profits, which you can set yourself for each item.

Hope that helps