Here's that website.
It's a thing of beauty, isn't it?
The first decision about your website -- once you've decided to have a website --is what web designer to use.
You may be thinking that you need to find a spot on the internet first, but often that decision follows the question of who should design your site.
Lots of web designers will host your site for you once they've designed it, and most companies that host websites will design your site if you host it with them. Not all, though. There are web designers who just do the graphic design part of the job and then you have to go find your own host. You can also design your own site, either by hand with your HTML cheat sheet on the desk beside you, or by using templates, and use a free or low-cost web hosting service.
The website you're reading right now is free. It's a place for the authors to sound off and share, not a marketing tool. Maybe a free website could be used as a marketing tool, but maybe your art deserves an artist, too.
Designing your own, or hiring someone just to design the page and then finding your own host, also usually means that you have to keep up with the site yourself. We'd say, don't commit yourself to that unless you're sure you can do it.
Josepha's site was built by a web designer with a template that he designed himself, much as we designed this website with a template from the Weebly people. Well, okay, his work is art and ours is just a recipe, or maybe a frozen dinner that we heat up, but the point is this: Josepha's website isn't 100% custom work, so the cost is less than it otherwise would be. If you want to step up from making your own with free templates to having something designed for you, a service like this one can be a good option.
The big question in choosing a web designer and then in choosing among the services the designer offers has got to be this: what kind of investment are you prepared to make, and will it pay off?
We'll let you know how Josepha's experiment works out.