Looking to put together a website...

[rurounihime]

I know a lot of you have your own websites. I know next to nothing about it but I'd like to put together a website for my professional writing. Does anyone have anything they really recommend or don't recommend? What parts of your website and its features do you love? Not love at all?

I have a blog and a Twitter, so I'd love to be able to connect up to those via my site... Haha, as you can see, I'm a total noob at this. I don't even know the terminology.

Thank you for any assistance you can give me!

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[dysonrules.livejournal.com]

We changed ours MULTIPLE times and most recently ended up linking the site to Wordpress. So far it's working pretty well. We use GoDaddy as our webhost and I have e-junkie for direct book sales from the website. With the Wordpress link, you can write a blog post and put it on the website really easily.

The best thing about using Wordpress for your blog is that you click one button and it automatically sends your blog link to Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook, and any other social media you set up. (It lets you choose.)

So far I like it, but I don't really maintain the site the way I should. It's very time-consuming to make changes, plus it's infrequent so there's that RE-learning curve every time you have to go back in and do something. I think the worst thing about a website is just the constant freaking maintenance. There are also a lot of little hidden expenses. We pay the hosting fee, the e-junkie fee, and a special fee to Wordpress to block spam (we were getting a hundred spam messages a day, so that was a necessity). Probably some other fees I've forgotten at the moment.