PPP: Thoughts on building a website and My graphic designer friends laughing at me

T h o u g h t s   o n   b u i l d i n g    a   w e b s i t e 

SO I made a list of things I really would like 

from my future website!  It needs to be: 

• Easy to access on mobile devices and computers (because so many people use their phones now, it can't be having a slow loading time). 
•  Easy to edit, I don't want to be hassling people to help me every time I want to add a new post. 
• Linkable to my other social media's (linked in and instagram as it is). 
• Be able to have a domain name/ an address that isn't ridiculously long 
• Something that I can blog on
• Something I can link a shop too 

Now this seems like an easy list but it's been an absolute nightmare. I already own 'sugarcombe' as a domain on tumblr but I'm not really sure whether Tumblr is the best thing to have as your website, I'm also very confused on how to get a domain name on Tumblr. 

I thought about using WIX as John mentioned it in one of his talks in the previous weeks however upon mentioning it to my graphic designer friends I was laughed out the room and told that clients wouldn't take anyone seriously if they used that as a website builder. I asked why? Apparently WIX is commonly used by young teens and it's somewhat of a running joke within the graphic design world. So I guess that means I'm not using WIX then... 

Moving on from that I asked them what I could use? SquareSpace and Weebly were the ones that were used within their client circles as they are easy to edit, but they do have a cost to retain a domain name. SquareSpace you can't use without paying for, but Weebly you can (if you don't want to pay it ends up looking like  - www.thisismyusername.weebly.com) which is bareable I thought.  

So far I've had a go with Weebly, I'm not finding it the easiest thing in the world if im honest, theres a lot of snapping things to things and although it's created to be basic, it's actually overthinking basic (which no undo button, it leaves you trying to backtrack when you mess anything up). 

I'm going to try to persevere with it, just for the sheer fact I feel like it looks more professional than tumblr (honestly i'm probably going to end up having it on tumblr).