Website Design

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Hey everyone.

I am starting my own small business in the next month or two, making badges. I'll be using Etsy, Big Cartel, eBay, Myspace and a website of my own to sell them. I will be doing both custom order designs and standard designs too.

In terms of my own shop website, I'd like to have a simple, but nice looking website to sell the custom service.
Can anyone let me know how I go about designing the website and producing the code for the site itself? Do you use a website to do this for you? Has someone else done this for you? Did you have to pay for it?
Can you basically let me know everything you can in regards to this?

Thank you so much!