I've been a lifelong scientist, but would like to work on this as cheaply as possible. I already own a domain, but the last website I designed was in 1995 (was featured in the now defunct magazine Internet World). I don't really like the way Wordpress' themes look. I would like to design this myself, but I've been out of the loop for a while. Any suggestions, or free/cheap courses I could take to learn the programming languages necessary to make a relatively simple website from scratch? FYI, my domain is run by Google Domains (I received an invite) and I'm not sure how this effects your answers. Thank you.
This is what you want<p><a href="https://www.udacity.com/course/cs253" rel="nofollow">https://www.udacity.com/course/cs253</a><p>They teach you on making website on appengine, which I believe is a very good platform for your idea.
In what way are you open sourcing research? Have you seen <a href="http://centerforopenscience.org/" rel="nofollow">http://centerforopenscience.org/</a>?