Anyone here who owns and runs a website willing to explain how easy or otherwise it is to set one up? Also your experience maintaining it.
I want the website to be focused on evangelism, mostly directed to non-Christians of all kinds, secularists, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists etc to bring them by God's grace to Christ and Baptism into the Church. A secondary focus would be videos, articles and other material helping Catholics to come to Tradition/apologetics directed at Protestantism and/or Orthodoxy, from Scripture and the Fathers etc. I think there are already many sites that do the second, and make some converts; but very few dedicated to the first, though potentially thousands of souls could be reached. Can someone tell me how to get started?
Do you know HTML?
You should YouTube some Web design videos
My recommendation would be to stay away from trying to have a dedicated site. Maybe do a blog, or a collection-point style thing where you coalesce these concepts (similar to https://www.scripturecatholic.com/ or https://www.biblechristiansociety.com/. A good site requires either original content, and it's unlikely you can compete with the many good ones already on your own, or requires a good bit of networking. Further, a good website is a LOT of work. HTML is only part of it. There's CSS, jscript, etc. To make a good go of it, you really need to have a developer and they aren't cheap (or you could convince a fellow Catholic to assist, if they are actually good at it).
Your focus is all over the map and would result in doing nothing well. Pick a niche and develop it.
You'd need to really understand the place from which non-Christians come. That requires studying Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, etc. Fr. John Hardon has some good articles about those various systems. I once showed his article on Buddhism to a Buddhist I know, and he commented that it was the best explanation he'd ever seen from the pen of a non-Buddhist.
Acts 17 Apologetics, a Protestant group, already does a pretty good job of destroying Islamic arguments. Take a look at their material.
Unsure about Buddhist or Hindu focused Christian ministries.
Not trying to discourage you, but I would recommend starting small. Develop content. Shop it around for critique.
It is relatively easy.
1. Sign up with bluehost.com. It will cost around $80/yr. or there abouts.
2. At bluehost.com, register your domain name. Cost is $30/yr. if you get the privacy option, otherwise around $15.
3. On the bluehost control panel, do the one-click install for Word Press (free).
4. Learn Word Press on Youtube. The Udemy courses are pretty good also.
You can search through many free templates (which you can customize) or start from scratch.