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IMO the easiest way of making a website is using a wysiwyg website builder. There are already a lot of site builders which offer nice templates and lots of functionalities, and have free accounts with limited options. I've been to the DEMO Fall conference this year and watched the presentation of sitekreator.com (you can see its demonstration in demo.com - can't give you the full link as it's not allowed to new members), and then it took me 10 minutes to figure out how to make a site with it! I'm now using their free 10 meg account which seems to suit me perfectly. Try it out, it has just everything you might need in case you don't need a design-unique website but something really practical and good looking.