I must weigh in. Just set up new website and use Made by Minimal theme "Eames." I love the clean minimalist look. Brian at MadebyMinimal.com is very helpful as I am absolutely NOT techy. Have the portfolio pages I want, the separate blog and separate SHOP for prints, aka reproductions. I figured out Wordpress and Woocommerce pretty well within what I need. Use Paypal and that works for sales. Yes the theme costs $100 per year but I feel when things go haywire I can email, even on a Sunday and get an answer.
Host is Siteground. I find them easy to call and talk to anytime. Works for me.
Jan at JanetHermanArt.com
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Honestly don't think it's worth hundreds of dollars to maintain a website. I use the hPage.com website builder for mine and I only pay about 4.99 euros a month. That includes everything, by the way. With the domain, custom email address, website template, business features, etc.
I'm not particular on web design. Content is what matters to me more. So I don't really care if my website isn't visually appealing.
Here's their site in case you wanna consider: https://www.hpage.com
We should be careful on these web site people. I went with "Go Daddy". Customers called me and asked when they were ever going to receive their ordered pictures. What?????? A look at Pay Pal told me that they indeed paid. A Go Daddy person told me they don't send e mail notifications of orders just text messages. What?????? I can easily miss these. After talking with management , their research showed orders were going into an employees account and that the employee was not with them any more. The do send e mails of orders placed. Double check every thing.
We use other people’s pixpels OPP It’s designed for artist, super easy to use, cost $16 a month. https://otherpeoplespixels.com/