The email with Google Apps for Your Domain is a separate service from regular gmail. It uses the same gmail application, but your email address is not yourname@gmail.com -- it is yourname@YOURDOMAIN.com. The Google email option I am describing in this article is very professional and very full featured. I have not seen any other free email service that comes anywhere close to this level of professionalism and quality. It doesn't get much better than gmail at your own domain.
This article has a no-cost theme. Therefore, I assume you are doing almost everything the free way. I even assume you are hosting your web site from your house with a dynamic IP address. Probably the only thing you have to purchase is your domain name and I assume you already have that.
