Website space, building my website

Neocities

 Neocities is a smaller community, largely based off the older Geocities style. 
I largely wanted to use this interface because of how free it is, you can really personalize the look of your own website with neocities.

Some examples of portfolio websites:

 glitch artist Fauux (seizure warning)

Comic artist Benji Nate

Pixel artist Mark Valentino 

also did 2bit

Neocities does not come with a template system, it is built of HTML and CSS coding.
While this is not for everybody i find that many websites often blend together with it's minimalistic design.
Often websites are limited in how customizable they are, and drag and drop widgets and cookie cutter websites end up looking very corporate.

it also often does not fulfil my own needs as an artist.

Presentation of artwork is very important, and usually websites designed just with black and white templates do not offer heavy layers of customization without additional subscription fee's.

It's usually black or white, however I specifically need a grey tone when presenting my images.
I could, edit images individually for my portfolio, however creating that kind of frame might cheapen the overall look of the image and website if the images have some elements of transparency.

I must also the concerned with how the portfolio website handles my images.
I have to know:

• image constraints: what is the maximum size i can upload an image?
• if the image is uploaded not at maximum size, will the websites software effectively "blow" the image up until it fits that needed size?
• at what quality does the portfolio present my artwork?

This may be less important to someone presenting work that is more painterly as slight deformation of image is not always visible to the eye however if pixel art is deformed it looses half it's charm with it looking "fuzzy" with it's individual pixels becoming stretched out and often aliasing and blurring make the overall image look unclean.

These are my two major concerns in creating a portfolio website.
Other minor concerns are:

• the website service placing watermarks on my website that i cannot get rid of, or at least having to pay a lot of money to get rid of.

So, i have only had very minor experience with HTML before.
However, website building is not as scary or complicated as one might think.
I veered away from using a website builder like dream weaver due to the round about code it uses. I would rather create my own code so i know where exactly things are if i run into any troubles. Neocities also provides a notepad like program in browser that updates your website on the fly, it also alerts you to conflicting code or any other struggles that you might encounter.
While it needs a certain amount of technical know how to properly understand some terms it is laid out simply. 

My website is compromised of one fairly simple CCS code that enables images to be put on top of each other (IE.X Layers)

This is a fairly simple, though image heavy system.
It does however let me easily update the overall look of the website without having to change code for each individual page if i created the website with a more table based system.

 

This is the CCS where the coding points to where all of the images should go and what layers they should be on.

This is the code where all of the Websites content it put.