Jri
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I've had a portfolio website (plus the associated email address) that I built from scratch years ago chugging away in the background for ages and frankly, it's rubbish. I pay the hosts, Easyspace, about £36/year to keep it going and all I ever get from it is junk mail. It's dead weight.
The site is something I cobbled together using my own ultra basic grasp of HTML and a few bits of stolen Javascript to get a Lightroom showreel to work. I haven't updated it in years because every time I do - I need to manually change the individual HTML pages in Dreamweaver, save them and upload them via an FTP programme like Filezilla. I feel like the whole thing is very clumsy.
What I really want is something with a user friendly backend that I can log into (like you get with something like blogger), that I can update as regularly and often as I do with my social media (Instagram, Facebook etc...).
I want it to look professional, so the domain name needs to be my own (not www.mywebsitename.hostnamehere.com) and if at all possible I would like to avoid any powered by Wordpress branding invading the look of what I hope will be a reasonably minimal site.
Lastly, the site needs to be generally as mobile device friendly as possible.
While I would like to one day develop a good enough grasp of web design to be able to knock together something bespoke for me - I need something for the meantime that will be genuinely functional, not just a token url that sits at the bottom of my business cards.
It would be cool to have a 'contact me' field on there whereby people type their email along with a query into a box on the actual page - I would probably be happy to have something like this in lieu of a personalised email address - but I would rather have both.
I have no complaints about using templates, as long as they can be customised to a reasonable degree.
What would be the best platform for me to use? What are your experiences/opinions?
The site is something I cobbled together using my own ultra basic grasp of HTML and a few bits of stolen Javascript to get a Lightroom showreel to work. I haven't updated it in years because every time I do - I need to manually change the individual HTML pages in Dreamweaver, save them and upload them via an FTP programme like Filezilla. I feel like the whole thing is very clumsy.
What I really want is something with a user friendly backend that I can log into (like you get with something like blogger), that I can update as regularly and often as I do with my social media (Instagram, Facebook etc...).
I want it to look professional, so the domain name needs to be my own (not www.mywebsitename.hostnamehere.com) and if at all possible I would like to avoid any powered by Wordpress branding invading the look of what I hope will be a reasonably minimal site.
Lastly, the site needs to be generally as mobile device friendly as possible.
While I would like to one day develop a good enough grasp of web design to be able to knock together something bespoke for me - I need something for the meantime that will be genuinely functional, not just a token url that sits at the bottom of my business cards.
It would be cool to have a 'contact me' field on there whereby people type their email along with a query into a box on the actual page - I would probably be happy to have something like this in lieu of a personalised email address - but I would rather have both.
I have no complaints about using templates, as long as they can be customised to a reasonable degree.
What would be the best platform for me to use? What are your experiences/opinions?