Resources:

Domain of One’s Own –  http://umwdomains.com/

Webmaking 101 –  https://p2pu.org/en/schools/school-of-webcraft/sets/webmaking-101/

Ingredients:

Your Domain

Easy: https://www.hover.com/

Cheap: https://www.namecheap.com/

Also, most hosting sites will offer you a domain with hosting

Web Hosting

http://wordpress.com/

Home

http://asmallorange.com/

http://www.squarespace.com/

(Get reviews at  http://reviewsignal.com/webhosting  )

If you go with HTML5:

FTP

Filezilla: https://filezilla-project.org/

Cyberduck: http://cyberduck.io/

Text Editor

Notepad++: http://notepad-plus-plus.org/

Text Wrangler: http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/

Templates – HTML5 Up: http://html5up.net/

Considerations:

“Responsive” – How it looks on other devices (mobile)

Light weight

Leads us into “instaposts” . . .