Re: Starting a website for a school
heheh great,
well you can register at Godaddy.com or any domain name registrar, I like Godaddy as their prices are pretty cheap.
I don’t like godaddy for anything else other than domains, so for hosting, you should check out BlueHost or JustHost.
Or I can host the website for $10 / month. 
When you type Google it goes to a DNS server, DNS server has gooogle.com 192.168.1.1 ip address entry which points you to the right ip address and then loads the page google.com.
So you would point the DNS of your domain name at registrar to hosting providers DNS which would then display the pages when requested by the users. You just need to do it once and forget about it so no need for a lesson.
You do want a dynamic website so wordpress will do it… CMS is Content Management SYstem like wordpress, joomla, Drupal, etc.
If you don’t want to deal with the above, just make a username at wordpress.com and make site there but that will be yourschoolname.wordpress.com, not very professional.