I've decided to just go ahead and hand-code my business website from scratch, using Bluefish and other open-source tools. Because it's been years since I've done this and I've never written HTML5 from scratch, I'm using HTMLforPeople as a refresher:
https://htmlforpeople.com/

This website is going to be limited in size and won't have to update much, so it's great for doing it this way. And I'm already finding that this forces me to think about what I actually want & how to structure.

Like, *of course* I'm going to have a page about copy-editing, one about translation and one about writing. And maybe one about terms and conditions, how to contact, and so on. The path just shows itself.

And of course, compared to any Wordpress site, it'll be *lean*. There will be nothing there that I didn't put there myself.

Now, I expect that making it look fancy will present some difficulties, as CSS, unlike HTML, is pretty complex and fiddly. But I am thinking about structure now, content next, looks later.

Aw man, the course goes straight to using a CSS framework! Ah well.

Anyway, the way I'm doing this, typing in an editor, uploading through sftp, and so on, feels just like being back in uni and/or my first nerd job, which also involved a bit of website coding. Just like the good old days.

I'm a little ahead of the course when it comes to organising files, because I remember how important that was.
Good, good. So far, nothing is strictly new, I'm just pretending to be a beginner.

All right, moving on to HTML5 tags. I didn't know these yet.

Oh, and mental note, there's an artist on Comicfury who's read all the docs and has customised their site in great detail, which is another thing I would like to do.
(comic contains a lot of nudity)
https://ytholand.the-comic.org/comics/