I now have 1 megalithic site and 1 (crap) blog as you can see on my profile.

For webspace, I use http://www.awardspace.com/ who have a quite good free plan as well as paid. They will host one top level domain (bawn.ie) for free, but you will need to buy it first. I bought mine last night from http://www.123-reg.co.uk/ £6 for 2years for a .co.uk.

To get your website up & running, get some quite stunning free templates from here: http://www.openwebdesign.org/ and edit them with a free WYSIWYG editor such as http://www.nvu.com/index.php

For FTP (getting your files from your pc to the web) I can't recommend http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla/ enough.

It really is quite simple-If you want more, mail me & I'll run you through what I did step by step, 'tho to be quite honest, I learnt all I know (such as it is) from googling any questions that came up.

Good luck, and post your site on here when you're done!