uh... I use notepad
It's been forever since I built a site, lol. Web design was my major but after one year I axed that and went with Cisco networking instead.
GoDaddy.. meh.
I had the same request from a family member not too long ago. "I want to start my own site to sell things!" She was selling self-made things... I told her sign up and sell through Etsy instead. A web site is fine and all, but there's a lot more to it than building a site and getting a checkout in place so people can buy stuff.