Hi Guys, (hope this is in the right forum)

I'm hoping someone will be able to help me with something that is very straightforward I'm sure, but has me fairly confused.

There is two parts actually, second is kinda advice.

First, I've signed up to Photoshelter.com, who deal with template based sites geared to photographers. I have my domain registered with GoDaddy. I followed the instructions for setting up my own domain name by creating a CNAME in godaddy, and I then entered that in Photoshelter. It says it might take 24 hours or so to work. In the meantime when I type in my URL I just get that standard 'site is parked with GoDaddy' page. Is this normal? Any guesses how long it should take to sort itself out? It's been about 20 hours.

Second, when I first registered my domain, I also sorted out hosting with Bluehost, and had a wordpress template going. This is kind of obsolete now, as in, the hosting won't be used anymore. I still have an email address going through it though. Just wondering if there is anything I could use it for?
There is an option to incorporate a blog in Photoshelter. I'm thinking I could use a new one set up through Bluehost, but isn't there also other free blog options I could integrate?
I presume Bluehost won't refund me any money

Any advice would be great, thanks.

I'm not familiar with the web hosts you've mentioned, however you would usually point the nameservers to the host. This is still done from GoDaddy's control panel.

GoDaddy's parking page is expected for a few hours when the A records and/or name server records are changed. But, it should be for 24-48 hours only. You should contact them if the parked page is not being removed.