i've been thinking about making my own website for a while now, even if only as a place that's convenient to find my stuff rather than browsing tags here or somewhere else. i'm ready to pay for convenience (like, let's say 100€/year with all included would be perfectly nice) so my first look was portfolio services like Adobe Portfolio. some even offer blogging features so that would have been perfect.
unfortunately they all forbid porn in some form or another, and despite it being only a small part of my output, it's also a really important part that i'm not willing to let go. so i guess i'll have to actually get my hands dirty and build it all myself, and then find a place to host it. even the "simple" guides that have been making the rounds feel incredibly complex to me but i don't really have a choice huh

ok so i'm like. feeling a tad ambitious in the face of despair. i've seen the basic starter guides to build up a website, but beyond that i don't know where to start at all. like i describe above what i ultimately want is to make a portfolio website (linked as an example), and it'd be nice if it had a blog section i could post to without having to put my hands in it; for example to detail the process of a project.

it doesn't need to be as fancy as a commercial prebuilt, just to have a flow that goes like home => menu with thumbnails => click on thumbnail leads to unique gallery => click on thumbnail opens the full picture in a new tab (to keep it "simple" and not deal with zoomboxes and such). i assume i'd be using a CDN like Backblaze to host the files.

realistically, how does something of the sort look? how badly in over my head am i?

i have no idea about what kind of prices apply for webdev commissions, but i'd be down if it's like. accessible enough. maybe even a trade of sorts? i don't draw, but i'm a professional car livery designer. idk just thinking out loud tbh