I started off with free hosting for my very first site, courtesy of a friend of a friend, who i convinced after showing him some graphic work i had done before.

after that i moved on to paid hosting, more reliable, more control etc.

also, I offer a free hosting package to anyone interested. You get 150mb and 2gb of data transfer. contact me if interested. i only ask that a link be made back to my site, though it is not mandatory. you get all the same functions of a regular account (cpanel, fantastico, etc) but with less space.

-kevin