Etsy vs My Own Website

So, for a few months now I've had problems with my regular Webstore.
My website designer, Gestalt Graphics (very clever and excellent work) have spent WAY too much time dealing with YAHOO's new HTML platform.
...and may I say, Yahoo has been unhelpful, and has a basically "It's your problem, even though it was caused by something we did" attitude.

Most of us small website owners are creative people, and our Geek level is limited.
Besides, I would much rather spend my daylight hours making beautiful clothing, and my night time hours refreshing my body and mind with a nice dinner and sleep, rather than hours of sitting staring at a screen.
I also love to be outside in the garden listening to birds and watching plants grow.

So, I decided after the rather long rumination of 6 months to pull the plug on the old webstore, and the $60-$80 dollar monthly cost for something that the host would not even help to heal... really.

I know there are people out there with lots of experience and simple functional websites, and the best advice I have gotten is... "Don't you have a young Geek in the family who can help you with that?"

Well, I may have a Geek or two in the family, but they are either thousands of miles away, or already overbusy with their own Geek issues.

I spent a fair amount of time looking at website hosting services like Go-Daddy, who offer templates that all look like a bad info-mertial and anonymous as could be, I tried to figure out how to use Wordpress, another popular server for blogs and some product sales, but couldn't figure that out either.

Then I saw the blog of a local potter/ceramist named Whitney Smith.
She writes a good blog about her experiences, and has done a series on craft entrepenaurs and sells on Etsy.

I really like the little Etsy link showing items from the store, and decided that I would begin there.
Thank you Whitney!

She also had great pragmatic advice about selling you stuff, and being "business like".... so, no excuses... I'm still a work in progress.
I say that because I have only managed to list a small fraction of my available clothing, and my photo skills are still shall we say "naive".
I realized while working on the shop that I loved fooling around with the banner graphics way more than describing and listing product, and so briefly considered a career as an Etsy banner designer... and may moonlight.

I'm writing this on a lovely day with sunshine beaming and plants calling from their cramped little pots who want to be placed in terra firma, and a list of actual orders long enough to take me through the end of Mercury Retrograde!

So, if anyone reads this and knows the answer to the secret of webdom.... please let me know!