Today, I am likely to recommend using a weblog site if someone were to ask me what to use to setup their own website with minimal fuss and no HTML programming.  Many websites today, though not strictly a blog site, follow the format of a weblog with fixed links along the side, and a regular changing content on the home page.

The best blog software, in my opinion, will offer the ability to create pages off the home page.  WordPress.com is such a site.  It supports categories, uploading files and pictures, and RSS feeds for each category.  If you’re happy with a basic layout and content is more important to you, then I highly recommend WordPress.com as a way to have your own web site or weblog.

• Easy to add new announcements.  Blogs work like a diary, you post new entries and they appear in reverse cronilogical order.  New items at the top lower items pushed down.  After a while items drop off the main page and are archived.  You can get to the archives from the home page.  Adding a new entry is similar to typing up a new email.  You have some basic control over type font.
• You can access your site from any browser by going to www.wordpress.com and logging in.
• Supports adding images into your post.
• Supports pages that don’t appear on your homepage.  You can link to these pages from your home page.
• You can associate a category for each post and view all items for a particular category.
• Your site is searchable
• Free
• Anyone can "subscribe" to your website using an RSS reader which means they get notified when new items appear. They don’t have to keep checking back for announcements.

• Only offers basic templates.  You can’t make the site look exactly how you want without a lot of work.
• No spell checking
• Not much support.  Forums, Yahoo Group