When I was first learning - I used geocities (closed down now) it was supposed to be easy - it wasn't thrn I found Coffeecup software - it has both html (coding) and wysiwyg (what you see is what you get) ... that software was very beneficial for me klearning coding - after playing around and seeing the coding changes - i got it. Later on, I found bravenet
http://www.bravenet.com/.... such an awesome place! Thier website builders are extremely easy - it takes you step by step throughout the whole process and has alot of integrated tools you can use as you gain more experience. Later on you can edit the pages however you want without using the website builder - I highly recommend it. You can start out using thier free service (allows double the homestead bandwidth) then if you like it registeer for a year (100.00) and get a free domain name (9.00 seperately) This link tells you more about the classic features and prices from free to paid
http://www.bravenet.com/webhosting/hosting.phpYou can use either classic with ftp(what I use) or the new drag and drop viviti: featured sites
http://viviti.com/featured_sitesThen once you get the hang of it you can import any website layout you want and tweek it out in thier editors... I love my site - the problem I am having now is the layout I chose doesn't like firefox, dillo, galeon, epiphany, opera, iceweasel, seamonkey, konqueror or minefield........ you can find out how your site looks in different browsers using browser shots (free)
http://browsershots.org/ just enter your sites url and select which browsers you want to test - it takes a little while but worth it