G'day Simone,
My name is Mat from Sydney! I've been building websites for the past 5 years both for companies & for myself and many are currently ranking high in Google (both Google Australia & USA). First off let me tell you: you want to work with an Aussie. Trust me. Dealing with some of these foreign providers is incredibly difficult and the language barrier does reflect on finished products.
I think the best platform to build this website would be WordPress. Using WordPress it gives you complete control over every aspect of your website without you needing to know a single line of code. You'd be able to edit content, upload photos, manage basically everything and a hell of a lot more. Because I'm not a foreign company I'll be able to keep you up to date all along the way.
You'll have input at every stage of the process and as I said before I'm based in Australia so we'd be able to easily communicate with each other. I'll be able to help you out with domains & hosting and everything else that other providers will expect you to know (and if you don't, they'd send you through to their IT support department and we all know how fun that is!)
So to recap, this is what I can offer you:
- an awesome, WordPress based website
- an admin panel for easy management
- 1 on 1 customer support (notice how majority of my reviews here feature my name - that's because we work 1 on 1)
- the ability to start right now!
Let me know what you think!
Mat