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No advice but I can give this a bump.
I have hosted my website on doteasy.com for many years. I have no complaints about it. I write all of my own codes in Notepad. himmie.net Rabbitry.There are sites such as weebly.com that allow you to purchase your own domain name and use their site builder. I currently have My Collection site on there, though it will most likely be moved to my domain at some point.
Now this is only my opinion, but the best way to make a simplistic website is to learn some basic HTML (plus CSS, if you want it to be more modern on the inside, plus it really will be more comfortable in the long run) and hand-code it. That's how I did back in my early teens around 2000, when some coding skills were necessary if one wanted to publish online. There were some WYSIWYG programs around, but they produced messy and uneconomical code and I wanted to stay away from them. I don't know if present-day website making programs share these problems. The techniques needed will not be rocket science if you're aiming for a simplistic style - mainly basic text formatting, tables and placing images. Unfortunately the proliferation of blogs and easier publishing seems to have made HTML guides and teach-yourself books more elusive. W3C:s (the consortium responsible for the HTML standard) basic tutorial looks like a good place to start. Later on, when you understand the basics, read other people's source codes and learn from how they made a particular thing. I'm not telling you to copy them onto your own site but it's an efficient way of learning what is possible. Web hosting and a domain name (mul-ta.com) are two fundamentally different things. You can find the latter for free but the former usually not. You can buy a domain separately and set it as a shorthand for another (mul-ta.com actually leading to webhosting.com/users/mul-ta). Luckily many service providers sell the two together so you don't really have to think about it. I would recommend one if I could - I never was hosted at one myself. In many cases you will need a FTP program to upload the files to the server (I have FileZilla), specific details will depend on the hosting service.
I've currently got a domain name picked out but haven't bought it yet, I am hoping to get them together in a package from one provider. I'm currently looking for one that allows you to upload html files directly.
I use Servage.net and really like it - they take care of the domain setup and renewal for you (and I believe your first domain is included for free).
As for not using the program, I really like how my site looks on the program, but I am assuming things will get messy if I actually try to upload it?