Hi everybody
Thank you so much for your replies and kind words, they really do mean a lot.
I've changed the layout over time to best suit what I want to get out of it. I can recommend Wordpress to others wishing to create similar style websites as it's quite easy to use and has a huge 3GB of storage. But where I believe it has the advantage over other platforms is the presentation. It has 177 themes to choose from which all make it look much more modern. (I'm starting to sound like a salesperson now!)
@Bob I really like your site, especially the pages with different occupational interests. I seem to have every tobacconist in south London in my family tree so I might have a go at compiling a list of them too! I tried to use a Google Map to pin point places in my family tree too but I wasn't sure how it would look so I didn't go ahead with it. After seeing yours I've definitely changed my mind. I made a places page too, hope you don't mind. I also like your family name write-ups on the introduction page. I tried to do this as well in a similar style but as soon as I'd write about a branch of my family, I ended up finding something else out and it would be out of date as soon as I'd published it.
@Darren I chose Wordpress after playing around with a few of the other sites such as Blogger and Tribalpages. The amount of storage won me over. I think Tribalpages has 10MB of storage and Blogger has 1GB. The design was a bonus too.
@Milly Thank you for your kind comments. I didn't think of using the blog as a separate part of the site until a few months ago when I split the pages and blog posts up, but I think it's worked quite well. Let me know if you do take up giving Wordpress a go. I look forward to reading it soon! Let me know if you want any help too

@Igor Thanks for reading them! When I looked back recently at some of my first blog posts, I had to go back and edit them as my writing was not so good even though it was not too long ago. I'm glad to see that my writing style has changed over the short space of time.
@Dee Thank you for your encouraging words, I think sometimes everybody needs a push and I've never had feedback on my site before so it really it appreciated.

Miles