Cool ..apreciate Yinghwe and Stark ... I work on a Macbook. I will look up wordpress .. I wanted my intro page with an unique feature. I have absolutely no clue about website design...even my laptop is a little mystery to me sometimes. 
I might regret that but I am always happy to help.
You need a shared hosting account which means you are sharing a server with (set number) of other users. Thats the best until your page (if ever) becomes so popular that you need to upgrade to a VPS (virtual privat server) or as in my page a fully dedicated server -
Godaddy has good prices -
http://www.godaddy.com/hosting/web-hosting.aspx?ci=8971 it's pretty simple you order on their webpage, they will send you an email with all the login details - you cannot do anything wrong.
You need to check out their disclaimers they don't allow all webpage content, for example my webpage shows a lot of graphic stuff (since its warpage/military page) that means I need a hoster that has no problem with that and allows me to host the webpage - nude pictures are usual alright straight up porn is on most webhosters not allowed same as for Torrents etc.
Even if I don't think installing wordpress on any server is very hard I can understand that it might be though for somebody like yourself who has never done it.
I be happy to install wordpress for you and give some quick advice, but there is tons of info and guides how to use it and how to set it up.
Let me know if you need help
Edit: Getting a webpage up and running can be extremly easy, not like In the days when I started when youhad to code everything yourself
However it all comes down to your idea what you are trying to do with your page and what you will display.
You could easily spend a year to plan everythjng and in some instances it takes that long if you are planing a very large project.
But if you just want to test the water than I can say it can be done in litteraly a few hours, the hard work comes after that with promotion content adding etc.
