I bought my domain name from 123reg.co.uk and then hosted it via flump.net I worte mine all in HTML and robbed some funky javascripts from other sites just to piss around with. Depends what you want really on your site. I googled a beginners guide to html and went from there, you could do the same or a beginners guide to building a website. I'm sure there's thousands of tutorials on the net to help.