One of my students presented this site as an example of how free web page tools have progressed. Doodlekit is a free web creation and hosting site. With a free account you can have a page in the http://yourname.doodlekit.com domain.
Pages can be edited with a built-in WYSIWYG editor. You can upload pictures to a photo gallery and even designate specific pages/photos to be password protected.
A blogging tool is built into your personal web page. This enables you to have several front pages that are static with secondary pages, like blog pages, that can be changed often. The main page has a side menu with links to the various site components. New blog posts are listed in this menu as well as an RSS feed.
I did some searching and found several sites with similar tools.
http://www.jimdo.com
http://www.synthasite.com
http://www.weebly.com
There are undoubtedly others.