Domain names with iWeb

I know there has been a lot of discussion on this topic, but I haven't seen anything that answers my more basic questions. I have a .Mac site and would like to give it a personal domain name. I am handy with my .Mac site but know nothing about web pages, domain names etc and how they function (thus the beauty of .Mac that does the work for me). Any help with the following questions would be greatly appreciated. Please keep responses somewhat simple so I can start to understand...
1- If I register a domain name and forward it to my .mac site, what exactly is happening. For example, if I get a name from xyz.com that offers me a domain name, web space, email etc, and I use this name for my .mac site, is anything actually hosted by the xyz.com site? Make sense? All I want is the name. I don't plan to use any of the other services so I want to buy the smallest package. If this package only offers 75 MB of storage, but my .Mac site has more than that on it currently, will this cause a problem? Or, am I just simply slapping on the name and continuing to use all the .Mac functions regardless of the domain name's restrictions. Hope I was clear...
2- Where should I get my domain name? GoDaddy, A Small Orange....?
I guess that is it for now. I really want to know if I will need to change the way I do things, manage storage etc if I get a personal domain name, or is it business as usuall with a new name?
Thanks in advance for your help. Nick

Hi Elmeroguero,
If you buy a domain name at GoDaddy say elmeroguero.com for 10$/yr you then will be able to access the site you publish on .mac by entering elmeroguero.com.
EVERYTHING ELSE is business as usual. You publish your website by hitting publish button in iWeb and so on just as you did until now. All your pages are stored on .Mac and so on. The only thing changing is how you can access your website from browser (nevertheless you will also still be able to access your website typing the web.mac.com/username/ address).
Regards,
Cédric
(Difference between WebForward, WebForward with cloaking and CNAME:
-WebForward: after you typed elmeroguero.com in the browser you get forwarded to web.mac.com/username/ and web.mac.com/username/ will display in the browser
-WebForward with Cloaking: after you typed elmeroguero.com in the browser elmeroguero.com will display in the browser and don't change while people browse through your website
-CNAME elmeroguero.com will display instead of web.mac.com/username/ and while browsing through your website it will look like elmeroguero.com/sitename/nameofpagepeoplelookatnow.html)

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