This is largely curated for artists with little to no experience in owning a website.
Glossary for beginners:
I link these because oftentimes if you've never really thought about it before, you don't know how you want your website to look or function. But I think one of the best ways to get inspired is to see what others have done and experience all these websites yourself, so you can think of what kind of experience you'd want to create for your own website.
These are not endorsements of the content of any art or the artists in an individual way, just a collection of examples of how others have displayed their art on their own websites. Many links also go directly to the art gallery—feel free to explore the rest of the site to see what else is there!
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These are all different and not necessarily mutually exclusive options; find the ones you like the best.
Alternatives to Neocities or exorbitantly expensive hosting sites. These are good places to start, but check out my webdev resources (click) for more!
Other people have compiled even more lists of resources and websites that they think would be useful for creating a persona, artistic, and independent website. I'm not bothering going through them because I'm sure different people would want different things for their websites, so instead I'm just going to list all these lists here.
If you are a friend of mine and need some handholding, hit me up and I'll see what we can work out :)