I sent out an email about this topic several years ago,  using Blogger as a "tool" for building free web pages.  

But now there are some "new options" -- available from MS Office Live, Yola, Weebly, and several others.

Similar to Blogger, these other services are easy to update.  Typically you type some text in a window on a web page, then click a "Publish" button.  It's almost like sending email, except you click a "Publish" button instead of a "Send" button.

* The Wall Street Journal article from 3/3/2009, "How to Create a Successful Web Site For Nothing (or Almost Nothing)" is a good overview article.  It specifically mentions MS Office Live, Yola, and Weebly (the SynthaSite mentioned is now Yola).

* There's an interesting  ABC News VIDEO interview from 9/2009, "Yola and Web Site Design"" on the ABC News video page-- look for the Yola video thumbnail on the video page,

probably in the lower left corner of their web page (see below).

and click that thumbnail ---- >

((Don't try to click this thumbnail here in this email; it won't work; find it on the ABC web page.))

If you want a website with a ".com" or a ".net" or a ".org" domain name, 
you can just add about $10/year ($15 for .org) -- to purchase a domain name from GoDaddy.com  or a similar low-cost domain name registrar.

With most of these site, you can insert code from the free service "Google Analytics"  (Google.com/analytics) that allows you to see how many people are visiting, what pages they are looking at, how long their looking, plus a whole bunch of other stuff.  ((I'm in the process of struggling to learn how this works.))

Being an Apple user, it "pains" me to recommend a Microsoft product.  But of the four of these services I have tried so far, this is the one that -- at first glance -- may offer the most.

It's the only one that I have found so far, that allows you to NOT display the "get a free web page with microsoft" message at the bottom, without paying extra money to do so.  Yola and Weeble will not let you hide that message, unless you pay for their "premium" service (not really unreasonable; as that's how they plan to make some money back).

You can watch Microsoft's short VIDEO, "Demo: Get started with Web Site" to get an idea how it works.

Examples:

• There are example web pages in the MS Office Live Customer Gallery
• I made this site:   BilltownWeb.com .  ('Billtown' is the local nickname for Williamsport.)  This example is not a dance site, but it easily could be.
• The nearby Altoona Ass'n of Model Railroaders made this site:  TheAamr.org

At first glance, this seems to work about as well as MS Office Live.  But you cannot hide the message "Make a free website with Yola" unless you pay for the "premium" service.  I also had some problems getting the domain name to work right.  

Examples:

At first glance, this seems to less control over the text formatting then MS and Yola.  And as with Yola,  you cannot hide the message "Make a free website with Yola" unless you pay for the "premium" service.

This service is probably the least-capable of these 3, but also the simplest to use -- for those who want the minimum of complication.

I have set up about a dozen sites for groups and people starting around 2006, using Blogger.

Some of the newer services -- like MS Office, Yola, & Weebly -- are probably simpler to use then the blogs.  

But Blogger still has these advantages for multiple users:  

With the Blogger.com web pages, you can give multiple dance announcers "editing privileges", each with their own password.  For example, WilliamsportBallroom.com is currently updated by about 2 or 3 different announcers, each with their own password.
You can even set it up, so that a person can update only a single page or two, but cannot disturb anything on the rest of the website.

There is a list of more free website providers of linked from Billtown Web's  "Page 4 More Info".

The above-listed  examples  are also linked from the Billtown Web's   "Page 3 Examples".

Below are some screen captures of the example sites listed above.
Note all of these sites allow you to choose different templates and different colors, so you can make them appear quite a bit different than how these examples look.

Microsoft Office Live    ((  BilltownWeb.com ))

Yola  (( BilltownWeb.yolasite.com ))

Weebly  ((BilltownDance.com))

Blogger: (( SocialOrganizationForSingles.org ))