I like Dreamweaver if you want to have a for pay system.
However if you want to post information regularly and want free, rather than creating a site you may want to try blogger. This provides the ablity to have a web log (or journal) that is customized. There are several ones out there (go to goole and search on it). The blogger.org site will customize your look and feel to almost anything. There are many other blog tools out there. Almost all will post to a page at a site using FTP and it works behind a firewall.
Note that Google has bought out http://www.blogger.org (which I do use) but there are many other ones. Blogger is free and you can have several different web logs from them. The blogs can also be archived out periodically.
I use that too, however I already know HTML pretty well.
I would like to mention wordpad for those window people who read html files from unix or macintosh systems where it doesn't have the <cr><lf> characters combined. Or for files that are just too damn big.
i would also have to recommend notepad. Seriously, it's everything you *need* to make a website. If you use a wysiwyg application you are going to make a site that has a crap load of extra stuff in the code, is error prone, and will leave you with an empty, hollow feeling. Use notepad, refresh the html file with your browser. It's that easy.
-ff