My first and very own Website

Since 2014 I've been meaning to create my own website. I understand it's hugely promotional but in my first and second year, I didn't feel confident enough to promote myself with my own website. However this year I've taken huge steps in my life as a freelancer, a self-employed business and all the promotion that's needed for that sort of work to keep on coming.

I created my Website using wordpress.com. I didn't have much money to work with so started with a persona plan of £30 a year for a website domain. Mollypukes.com is now officially up and running. I'd contemplated not calling it 'Mollypukes' as a few clients had mentioned my name wasn't very professional however I wanted to continue branding myself past my legal name. 'Mollypukes' is me as a business and 'Molly Lester' is me as a person. I also wanted to create this website much like I created my business cards - I wanted it to be approachable and friendly.

Here are a few screenshots from my website:

I designed the 'starting' page of my website to be redirected to my illustration page, as I'm treating my illustration page as a form of portfolio - mixed with personal projects but mainly client and commission work. I hadn't used wordpress before and to be honest I was really confused when using it. I set up pages within the menu setting as well as logo links to all my social medias - but getting it to show on the website itself was the tricky part. After a long reading of their 'how to' page I managed to bring it all together. As of now I haven't updated that I have a website on my social media page - as I'm planning to after a few commissioned works are finished and I have the approval to use them in my portfolio online.