Free Web Hosting Sites:

• x10hosting.com
  
• 000webhost.com

Free Blog Sites:

• http://www.weebly.com/

• http://www.wix.com/
  
• https://wordpress.com/

Free Graphic Software Sites:

• Paint.net - a free software you can download, includes layers, clone tools, etc
• Gimp - shareware with lots of options
  
• BeFunky - free site that lets you upload photos and make cool collages
  

Free HTML Editor

• Microsoft Expression free HTML editor. Tutorial videos (Joshua Kywn's excellent series) can be found here.

FTP Software (allows you to easily upload files to your hosting site)

• FireFTP - works well with the Firefox browser