@ShadowJonathan https://zonelets.net/ this is always what i plug to friends without much "tech skill" who nebulously want to make a website, basically a javascript pseudo-static site generator. and i think this + the resources they kind of link to here are a good scaffold to writing your own websites and making them look nice without too much technical skill. my boyfriend is using it and like.. he's decent at using a computer but he's not like me where he does stuff with computers just for fun, he's very utilitarian with how he uses computers

doesn't really address the hosting part of it since the suggested use is 'just use neocities' which like... while it's a valid choice, and definitely miles better than a lot of alternatives, that feels like more of a stop-gap rather than anything else, and also is getting away from the point of having your own website