Need to start asking some questions?

I think it's about time that i start asking myself some key questions about my website and the reasons i'm creating it.

No.1 My Websites Aims?
The main aim of my website is to act as a vehicle to display some of my work to both my piers and to perspective clients. The main idea behind having my own site is to give the air of professionalism and to show that I am being proactive when it comes to getting my work out there into the real world.

I have also been weighing up incorporating a new blog into my website and this was the main thinking behind using Wordpress. I wanted a blog as this is a good way of showing the other area i am interested in and connecting with like minded practitioners. I want to be able to have more control over how my work is displayed rather than relying on sites like flickr and vimeo. With this said i may have to rely on those sites for a bit longer as my knowledge is still rather limited but my main goal is to have it all included in one site. This also means that if anyone wants to different types of work that i have done they can go to one website as opposed to different ones for my different types of practice.

No.2 Functionality?
How do i actually go about creating my website?
What methods/programs/coding do i use?
How do i plan out my site?
How do i design my site?
What am i including on the site?
What domain name do i use?
Who do i get my hosting with?
How much is this going to cost me?

Firstly i am going to plan out my site on paper and get a rough idea of how i want it to look then create gifs in illustrator and photoshop that i can use in Dreamweaver when creating the site with CSS. Then after the session where we look at Wordpress this Friday i will have a play around with that and see how it can work with what i plan to do using CSS.

No.3 How am i going to get people to look at my site once it's up and running?
This is the section I am not immediately worried about at the moment but i think that could be a fatal area, as whats the point of building a perfectly functioning website that no one is going to look at? I think i need to look into this question further.