As everyone has said, websites can be alot of work. But what I've found is the most work is content, and finding interesting things to update about.
Layouts and organisation can be a challenge at first, but once you've sorted things out they tend to be less of a problem.
Freewebs has templates which are easy to use, if you dont want to have to cope with all the coding at first. They also dont have adds, which is the only thing I dont like about geocities. But I've never used it, so I dont know how easy/hard it is to use.
HtmLite.com and
Draac.com are sites I recommend if you want to learn html.
Right now I just dont have to time to make and maintain a whole site for you, but if you need any html help, or would like a layout or something, I'm happy to help. Just PM me!
But before you even start a site with content and such, I suggest you learn the very basics of html. They include how to link, put in images, define font and background colours and maybe how to create a table.
Once you've got the hang of that, you shouldn't really need someone else to constantly help you with a site, once you have a layout sorted out.
As I said before, if you need help, feel free to PM me. I cant help you a layout and any fiddly bits of coding you need, but I already have enough trouble finding time to update my own site.