Lots of good advice in this thread. If you want something free and you're willing to get your hands a bit dirty, Drupal is fantastically powerful. At times it's also quite complex, and sometimes requires some ingenuity to get things working the way you want (not every module works with every version of Drupal, and sometimes a feature you want hasn't been ported forward yet). If you're working in Drupal, I think it's useful to still have Dreamweaver for developing your templates and occasionally working with PHP code.
Squarespace is probably the easiest thing out there. My wife uses it for her site (along with shopify); the visual look is extremely important for hers, and it allows her more control of all of that than any of the other blog-type hosting services she's investigated.
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