Creating and Publishing Web Pages

Hey guys, I am loving my new MBP, and for Christmas, I would like to create a Web Page for my Wife of our family. I would like to create a web page where one portion of it is a standard web page, that has anything that i want to put on it, and links to other pages, Sort of like a Title page. I would like it to link to a Family Blog page, and that page links to each of the family members blogs. Would iWeb be the best way to create this, to create these web pages. I then would like to publish the site up onto the web. But i dont have a .Mac account, nor do i want one. I have a domain name already, just need a server to keep my site, and wondering what the best publishing software is. I would like the software part to be easy, so that my whole family can update it, and make entries in their blogs. I guess that i am looking not only for something to easily publish the site, but also a server side blog software. So that i can have my own blog type thing set up on my server sort of like blogger.com, So that my family can go online to the page, login, and add entries to the blog. I would like to be able to put passwords on selective parts of the site... can anyone help me out here?

 

ok.. i have looked through iweb, and seems like a very good program for intermediate users...what about a site creation program a little bit more advanced, where you could do source editing, and just overall more advanced?

 

in iweb, how do i create a box that has an outline to it?

then also in iWeb, like how would i go about creating a web page that is my own. in iWeb it seems that you are stuck with the templates that they have for you, and if you use a blank page, you must insert the things that they have already made, you can't really create a webpage completely your own, whatever you want on it..at least it seems that way, if someone knows otherwise, please tell me...