I'm playing with free web building software called bluevoda at the moment - it's really good because it's wysiwyg so you don't need any experience, you just work on it on your pc then upload it to your webspace - the templates are fab, look at these that would look great on a craft site floral templates
You can host your site for free on jamroll
And you can get loads of free fun stuff such as forums, guestbooks & counters etc.. that you just copy and paste into your site on bravenet