Hi radio flyer,
I'm with you on this, building a website from scratch looks really complicated. I've been reading up on it, and my brain hurts...

. Some Internet Service Providers (mine is Comcast) give you free web space for being a customer. They gave me 25MB to start with, and I can buy more if I need it. It's also real simple to use, real user-friendly. You just do a lot of pointing and clicking. Simple instructions to follow. Many ISPs offer stuff like this to their customers, you might want to check yours. Also, do a search at Google for something like "Free Web Site Space". A lot of places will give away space just to get the advertisement. I'd be glad to do a little searching around for you when I get home this afternoon and let you know what I find.
Hopefully you can get some better answers from the others. Some of the gang here have very creative and impressive websites.
Hope to talk to you soon!
bp
"You might as well learn to like yourself; you have an awful lot of time to spend with you."