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This section is mainly for people who have little or no knowledge of html and no desire to learn it. However, if you are currently illiterate in html and css but wish to get a site started right away but plan to upgrade when you learn more html, you can start at one of these services as a beginner and move your site to a better free hosting plan when you learn how to do things yourself. My first site was actually a freewebs.

It is still possible to have a simple site hosted on a small free server without knowing anything about web design, but I do not recommend doing so for several reasons:
If something small is bothering you in the template or design that your free host generates, you will not know how to fix it.
Most hosts that come with a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) visual editor do not allow much bandwidth/storage, are well-known to be ideal for people who know nothing about web design, and may have ads.
It is highly unlikely that you'll have much site traffic, and your site will probably not be accredited.

Of course, if you insist on going with this option, then I'll try to help you make the best of it.

If you are looking for the simplest possible, then here are the quick start free hosting sites that I recommend. I will skip showing how to use them, because I feel that their control panels are very self-explanatory.

If you wish to get a quick start on a personal homepage, then I recommend pageflakes, because it has a lot of features, is easy to use, and requires no knowledge of html. Please note that it's only good for homepages. The main downside to it is the fact that your pages are not very customizable.

Google pages:
In order to use this service, you must have a gmail account. An invitation is very easy to obtain, but if you don't have one, you can get one from free gmail invites.
Pros: Google pages is completely free, easy to use, and comes with ready made templates and designs. They do not advertise on your pages, so you can either have a nice looking ad-free site or put your own and collect the earnings. There are many widgets that you can add onto your pages for more advanced features that require no knowledge of programming language to use. You get 100 mb of storage and an unknown but pretty high bandwidth limit.
Cons: If you use your default name, then everyone who goes to your site will know your email address. If you ever decide that you want your own top level domain name, you can't keep your site with them.

Freewebs:
Pros: They are completely free with ready made templates and lots of widgets to add onto your site. If you truly do not learn how to create a site the proper way, then they're probably a good choice, because using freewebs is pretty much self-explanatory.

Cons: They put a leaderboard (large banner) on the top of all your pages which is annoying, because you could be putting your own ads in that spot and making money. The bandwidth limit is 500 mb meaning that you can't have that many visitors, because only 500 mb worth of files can be downloaded from your site in a month (sufficient for most small sites). If you ever decide that you want your own domain and no ads, then their paid upgrades are ridiculously expensive for the services offered.

You may also try blogging, because html knowledge is not absolutely necessary to be blog, but your capabilities might be limited.