Two Tech Questions

1. What's the best software to put together a presentation - that is, better than Powerpoint? I want slideshow + music.
2. Rough costs to have a website for a tutoring business? E.g. name + hosting? I'd want it to be worth my while obviously

1: Keynote. You'll need to buy a Mac to use it though. Those nice presentaions behind Steve when he announces new iThings? All Keynote.
2: Wordpress.com (No, it doesn't have to be a blog, you can make it look very much like a normal website), sign up for free account, then you pay US$15/year for domain+"mapping" to your account. Or, pay ~$30/year for NZ domain, and US$10/year for just the mapping part. Cheapest and easiest way of doing it imo.

If you know how to use InDesign you can export as pdf and open that in acrobat on fullscreen. InDesign/pdf supports along with images and text, video, audio, flash, interactive elements (buttons for example), and the latest version of InDesign handles animation/timelines apparently. Hell you can even add all the ugly page transitions if that's your thing.

Also that way you can re-purpose your presentation to a handout or a normal pdf easily.

I might look in to keynote because it's installed on my MBP, but if I was asked to do a presentation tomorrow I'd whip it up in the tools I know because I'm not sure what real presentation software has them (any ideas?).

I know Powerpoint can do everything except Flash.

yeah but it's powerpoint ugh...
Perhaps it's just cos I've never spent more than 10 minutes on PP, but it seems MS churned out a generation of office workers who now think it's normal that if you insert a picture in to a document it can only jump in big steps and when you add another element it will make the first element jump elsewhere according to some indecipherable internal logic after you carefully positioned it? It's seriously stupid software imho.

LaTeX and Beamer

So basically you don't know what you're talking about then?

Anyway, crappy users can churn out crappy looking results no matter what software is being used.