In short, instead of just making my own website, I wanted to make a guide on how to make a website in a way that I felt people without the time or energy to learn some of the more technical aspects of the process could easily follow along with. Not just for setting the website up in the first place, but also for using it on a regular basis. The biggest thing I learned in this process, having never actually set up a website, is that there are many, many ways to do it. The way I did it may not be the way you want to, but I'd suggest skimming it over, particularly the "Using Grav" section, to see if the look and feel is what you're after. If you don't like the look of that, I ended up breaking out a section about alternatives into its own post here. You should look at those and see if they're a better fit.
My guesstimate is that this process is about 3-4 hours from front to back (pending someone actually using it to confirm), including carefully reading everything and what not. But once it's set up, there's not an awful lot you need to remember or maintain. This guide is kind of long because I wanted to try and answer a lot of questions and point out as many pitfalls as possible. I hope it's useful.