put it this way, i started two weeks ago not knowing a thing about HTML, took a day to learn and now look at my website... CSS an all.... <the website is on my sig>, plus if you purely code it then i find it easier to make your webbie more customized, and its would be easy just to modify, say the colour scheme, try
http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_intro.asp to learn the HTML and then ask around forums for a free hoster, there ya go, sorted