If you want superb edit and quick set up capabilities on the "high-end" combined blogging/website spectrum,I'd suggest Squarespace

Here'san example of one of the sites I've created. Very simple.Yet, you can get much fancier than this.They have a pretty reasonable monthly fee and you can build on or diminish as you wish.

Also, Go Daddy is good. They have quick sites and Website tonight. You can get domain masking features as well.

Good luck on your new site.

Peace,

Cynthia
"I would like to discover a method [of making music] so that if one of my friends is ill, I'd like to play a certain song and he'd be cured. When he'd be broke, I will bring out a different song and he would immediately get all the money he needs. But what these pieces are, and what is the road to attain the knowledge of them, that I don't know. The true powers of music are still unknown. To be able to control them must be, I believe, the goal of every musician."~John Coltrane, musician and composer (1926-1967)