Hello, my name is Jim Powers with BrainyDesigns.com. I have been designing websites for the past ten years and have provided websites to companies at an affordable price. What I do is design you a website and then turn everything over to you once I'm finished. You will own the website and domain name once the website is complete and the website will be serviced through NetworkSolutions.
Once you own the website you can edit the website yourself, or, have me edit the site at an affordable price. You will have to maintain your service fee and you will have to maintain your domain name. Maintaining these fees is easy, once each service is about to expire, you can have your account set up to automatically renew the service or you can manually renew the service when you are ready. Just make sure your services don't run out but you will receive e-mails from NetworkSolutions when they are about to.
I feel this is the best way to serve you! Why should you allow someone else to own your website and own your domain name? Many website companies are now consolidating or going out of business and your website is too important to let someone else hold the rights to.