I recommended WordPress. Find someone who knows the basics of creating a website with WordPress:
http://wordpress.com/
Signing up is free and so is creating and hosting your web site. They have a default template (or theme or web site design) these days that looks good and is easy to use.
I set up my website with a simple WordPress theme...
http://mudsongs.org
...then I slowly redesigned it as I learned how to use WordPress. Once you get the basics under your belt, it doesn't take a great deal of effort to maintain the site yourself, and the final result will generally look much better than anything on Blogger / Blogspot, or any kind of basic HTML site. (And no, I don't work for WordPress.)
If you start up a site on the free WordPress server, and you like it, it's not difficult to switch to a paid-for hosting service with a unique URL (web site address), and for a low-traffic simple website, hosting is cheap (I pay less than $5/month). But I'd take it one step at a time. You might be happy with the free WordPress hosting service with nothing fancy.
If you want to get really basic, though not necessarily any easier, you can try to create your own HTML pages with something like Microsoft FrontPage, though I don't know if I've ever seen a web site created on FrontPage that didn't look kind of junky. At least with something like WordPress, there are many free themes (web site designs) you can use that will likely look much more professional than anything you'll get out of FrontPage.
There are many ways to create simple but functional web sites. I've experimented with many of them. WordPress is the best I've found so far.
