Tinkering Tail Games

Overview

Generally for a website you need 3 things.
A domain.
Actually building the site.
And a hosting service.

For my Domain I use Porkbun. You can buy a .com domain for about 10$ a year on there.
I also heard a lot of people use Namecheap but I haven't tried it.

For actually building the site you can either use a website builder like wordpress or code it yourself with HTML, CSS and Java.
I have no experience with website builders, I can only tell you they tend to have slightly more expensive hosting plans.
Generally website builders are probably easier to get started with but a bit more expensive while coding it yourself will have more of a learning curve but you have full control over everything and it's cheaper.
There are also static site generators to help with making a site with hmtl and css but I haven't tried any. It may be worth checking out though if you don't like doing everything manually.

For hosting I use Neocities which is 5$ a month.
Another alternative I've heard of that's slightly cheaper is nekoweb. Both of these only support static sites and not website builders like wordpress.
They do both offer free hosting but if you want to connect your custom domain to your site (which you have to if you want to have a newsletter for example) then you'll need to pay.

Porkbun also has hosting services but I have not tried any of those.

@thewebsitearchitect
Good videos on webdesign
Structuring the web with HTML
These tutorials from Mozilla are what I used back then to learn HTML and CSS and I think they're quite good.