[Question/advice] Taking care of a website

Pointers to what i should know when i am making my first site? If i pay someone to set it up for me, do i still need to know css html or php? Generally things that would make my life hell as i progress. Feel free to help me out in any way you can.

IMO, you should still teach yourself basic coding. No excuse as there are many FREE resources online that can help get started.

Anyways, there are web services like leadpages or clickfunnels that allow you to make a website without knowing how to code.

I would like into them if you want to make a basic landing page.

If you built your site based on wordpress cms, its easy to learn & no coding knowledge required. But learn basic code, which will help you in long run.

html and css are super easy to learn. The problem is, if you want to change a behavior or your websites and there are no plugins available that do exactly what you want you have to get started with PHP, which is quite harder than html and css. But you surely would have an advantage if you'd know html + css and it's a good way to get started with coding.