I am not an engineer but also am not a huge social media fan -- I like more control over what i share and the format I use to share it. Instead of using linked

I am not an engineer but also am not a huge social media fan -- I like more control over what i share and the format I use to share it. Instead of using linked in / FB pages / medium, I've been building personal websites for friends and my own businesses, first using Wordpress, but found that just making simple static sites is much easier for me and more flexible. However, Ive had trouble with super basic deployment stuff and i haven't found many resources to help. Ive just been using Cpanel, manual ftp updates, shared hosting etc, but have found this setup is super limiting, and I didn't really know much about hosting options before setting hosting up I just found netlify, which seems great: integration with github, easy ssl certs, free, but just changing the DNS to point to netlify has been confusing, and I haven't been able to fix it. I also setup a site for a friend who was using wix (so terrible...) and can't figure out how to get hosting switched. I feel stupid for not being able to do this, and have been able to figure out how to do a lot of stuff that should be more complex (building web apps, data analysis with Python, etc) but I've struggled with basics of deployment A good set of resources for people who aren't engineers but have some HTML / CSS and programming knowledge, but don't have any devops or professional engineering background would be really useful imo