Web Portfolio Research

I'm pretty eager to start making my own website but I don't want to create something horrific and ugly, so I've put together a few websites from illustrators that I really like.
Obviously their practices are all pretty different to mine, but their websites are all nice and simple with big images. I think I'll stick to a white background for mine and use a big image on the homepage. Font-wise, I'll want to use something simple and keep the number of colours to a minimum!