I have been working on updating my website this week (first photo) and thinking about how I built the very first one in the early aughts by tweaking Angelfire templates within an inch of their life to NOT look like Angelfire templates. I've been using Blogger for the past decade or so, which gives you far more design tools for free than Wordpress, but I think its looking good. My HTML skills have no doubt increased over the intervening decades no doubt, but actually the platforms make it much easier and don't even require much coding unless you want to alter them significantly.
See it live here: kristybowen.com
