This is likely only interesting to the more technical members (any maybe not even them). I've bounced around between website hosts and website software for a while, but GitHub.com now provides HTTPS for all Github Pages (static websites), which means you can host your sites for free on your own domain (the real upside for me is not having to worry about a database or keeping Wordpress or the plugins up to date, that used to drive me nuts).
I use Jekyll to edit my site locally, then commit the code to my GitHub repo, GitHub takes it from there and updates the site. The website code is publicly visible in the repo, but there is a paid option for private repos.
For anybody who's interested, you can learn about Github Pages here:
https://pages.github.com and Jekyll here:
https://jekyllrb.com. However, unless you're comfortable playing around with code I probably wouldn't bother.
There are a few themes available if you google. I found one that suited and tweaked it for what I want, my site
www.leecarlon.com is pretty basic (and I need to optimize the images to load faster), but I don't plan on doing a lot with it other than showing my books and providing a sign up form for the newsletter.
