Absolute noob needing guidance for website/e-commerce shop.

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Hello everyone, first I want to say I’m sorry for making a post like this, I know this kind of post in ALL sorts of sub-reddits get posted heavily but I’ve been doing non-stop research for the past 48 hours on reddit, forums, youtube, and discord and I’m getting a lot of mixed answers (which makes sense because guidance is subjective). I’m sure i’ll get more mixed answers here but I think I can get a more focused response if I’m able to explain exactly what I’m trying to achieve rather than searching through topics using vague terms and not understanding the right terminology when searching.

With that out of the way, i’ve put myself in a stick situation. I’m an artist, audio engineer, producer, and clothing designer. I’ve only been getting clients locally and through word of mouth and I decided I wanted to create a website finally in order to try and reach a bigger audience and client base. My main objective of the website is to showcase my new releases, sell my engineering and production services, sell my clothing merchandise, and to create a blog/e-zine. Like any other skill I soon realized two things:

1) Theres a wealth of mis-information and good information that I need to filter to figure out what I should keep and throw out.
2) Nothing can be done easily, quickly, and cheaply.

With that said I need this website to be completed at least in it’s basic form (so no shop or complete optimization) by the end of this week… Essentially I just need it to work, to link to other pages, and have at least my services page and releases page updated with content even if clients will have to pay or discuss payment through Venmo or Zelle for now, and to have my first blog post up.

I’ve been using elementor blindly paying for the pro after watching one youtube tutorial that suggested I use it but I’m starting to realize that this may not be the best way to go, still I have a time crunch so a page-builder is something that I’m probably going to have to use. I plan on learning html, css, java, and php on my own time but I don’t see myself learning the basics on a level of it helping me out for at least 6-8 months. I’ve seen people mention other builders like Oxygen or using themes like storefront or breakdance(?) to build a website quicker.

Essentially this is what the inspiration and layout of the website is going to be: https://www.palaceskateboards.com/

Just four main pages: Services, Releases, Shop, Blog similar to whats seen in the above website, with the footer having all the other info like contact, about, etc.

If anybody can provide me some help and guidance on where I should start that would be great. I’m honestly okay with foregoing all the work i’ve done on elementor if that’s not the best way to go. I design all my own graphics and images and content so scaling or creating different file types of the content is not a lot of work for me. Thank you very much in advance.

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