I want to launch a single website that does three jobs at once: present my business professionally, sell a handful of products through a simple cart and payment flow, and host a regularly updated blog. To keep ongoing costs down, the whole build must start from a free template. WordPress, Wix, Squarespace—any of these (or a comparable option) is fine with me so long as the selected theme is truly free and mobile-responsive. Here’s what I need you to handle: • Select and install a suitable free template on the platform you recommend. • Custom-brand it—logo placement, colour palette, basic typography—so it looks cohesive and unmistakably mine. • Set up the core pages: Home, About, Shop, Blog, and Contact (with a working form and map). • Configure the store section with up to five initial products, payment gateway, shipping rules, and order notifications. • Add one sample blog post and show me how to publish future articles on my own. • Optimise the site for speed and search basics (clean URLs, meta titles, image compression). • Give me a brief hand-off guide or screen-share walk-through so I can manage day-to-day updates without paid plugins or ongoing licence fees. If this sounds straightforward for you, tell me which platform you’d choose and why, along with a link to a previous project where you stretched a free template to look anything but “stock”.